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THE STURDY PIONEERS HAVE LEFT A MESSAGE 



RE we faithful to the trust? Few and far between were the early settlers of that sec- 
tion, now included in Monroe County and a part of the County of Pike, which has 
come to be recognized as tributary to Monroe through the close affiliation of Delaware 
Valley points with the two Stroudsburgs, the natural commercial centers of a country, 
justly entitled to be known as "Pennsylvania's Favored Region." The trust imposed 
upon us to keep alive the faith of our forefathers in a country new, a country with- 
out apparent resource other than the possibilities of timbering and at that time limited agriculture, 
the hunting domains of a heavily wooded district and the natural fishing streams, is in itself the 
message, based upon the rewards which came to them in return for individual effort and indomitable 
energy. Supported by physical and moral stamina, their courage and determination have left upon 
their offspring the birthmarks that are indelibly imprinted upon the younger generation of the present 
day, the birthmarks of progress and progressive tendencies, friendship and friendly feeling, ambition 
and ambitious efforts, honesty and honest purpose. The spirit of "do and dare," putting to sleep any 
false notions of superiority, but bringing into action the highest standard of citizenship for the com- 
mon good, has set before the eyes of the world — in a new light — a country no longer new, but a 
country finding favor in the eyes of the man) 1 , the thousands and tens of thousands who appreciate 
it at its full worth. Such is the section which has become a playground for the pleasure-seeker in 
summer and winter, a center of inspiration and education for the lowly and the great, and recognized 
as a region advanced and advancing. No longer do we point to the Delaware Water Gap alone as 
one of the world's greatest wonders, for we have learned to realize that "Pennsylvania's Favored 
Region" in its entirety is a world wonder. No longer do we look upon industrial development as a 
thing to be dreaded but instead have come to realize that the encouragement of old and new manu- 
facturing enterprises proves a good investment and adds to the attractions which have so vividly set 
a high-water mark of progress for this section. Nature has been kind to us, but we have learned 
to add zest to life by making the most of natural advantages. 

To the citizens of the new, the greater and the more prosperous Monroe — and that part of 
Pike affiliated with it by virtue of traffic relations — to those citizens who have helped to upbuild this 
legion along the most advanced lines, and to the sturdy pioneers who laid the solid foundation for 
this modern superstructure, "The Bells" are respectfully and appreciatively dedicated by the pub- 
lisher whose aim was to place all of Monroe County and its Tributary Country before the world at 
large in the truest sense of "Justice to all, partiality to none." To thank each and every citizen who 
has helped to make possible this edition — in which appears as complete a resume of "men and af- 
fairs" of this region, as was ever published — this appreciation is also courteously extended. To the 
editorial contributors, the makers of the fine photographs and the artistic printing plates, and to all 
others who have labored for the production of an edition that will do justice to the representative 
interests of this section — as in a class with the largest communities of marked enterprise — apprecia- 
tion is hereby expressed. In closing, it may be advisable to state that the publisher feels confident 
that the spirit of progress, which has enlisted the co-operation of the enterprising citizens in the pro- 
duction of this remarkable booster edition, is destined to bear fruit in the continued prosperity of this 
region, insuring to future generations a healthy echo of the message left us by the sturdy pioneers, 
which now goeth forth as "The Bells, Ringing the Message of Progress in Monroe County and Tribu- 
tary Country," an all home print publication. GEO. C. HUGHES. 




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EATS will live forever, if only for his wonderful 
words on things beautiful. He is dead, but "A 
Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever," liveth or: 
forever, and where may we go and find truer 
and more striking exemplification of his words than in 
the County of Monroe and its Tributary Country within 
the State of Pennsylvania? The 
wanderer who wends his way 
hither and thither for pleasure, as 
it may be obtained in close com- 
munion with nature, needs but a 
glimpse of the fairest of fair, Mon- 
roe, to fall a victim to love at first 
sight with a country richly endow- 
ed by divine grace with everything 
that heart desires for transient or 
permanent residence. 

Here, hill and dell, brook and 
lake, water-courses — known as falls, 
steep mountain ranges and pros- 
perous agricultural low-lands, lov- 
ers' paths and lovely flowers, game 
and fish in their own season, sim- 
ple farm homes and stately struc- 
tures for the accommodation of the lowly and the fastid- 
ious, a government camp for the training of its artillery- 
men and guardsmen of various states, a railway over one 
of the scenic regions of the world, the famous Gap which 
to many remains a mystery as to its origin, bracing atmos- 
phere and an altitude which forestalls many of the ills 
and woes of city life, 
all these and many 
more may be found 
within the limited 
territory, known as 
"Monroe County and 
its Tributary Coun- 
try." Is it a won- 
der that in a field so 
richly favored by the 
Creator "Pennsylva- 
nia's Favored Re- 
gion" vies with the 
wonderful sections of 
the world for a place 
in the records of dis 
tinctive resort sec- 
tions? 

Its wonders have 
never yet been told. 
If I attempt to take 
the reader with me 
on a brief journey 
of exploitation, it is 
sincerely to be hoped that in passing the glimpses obtained 
will leave an impression of fact beyond all others, so that, 
may he travel far or near, throughout all parts of the 
world, there ever remains to him the memory of the one 
region which combines a far greater number of attrac- 




CENTRAL HOUSE, STROUDSBURG— An Old Main Street 
Landmark Which, in the March of Progress, Recently 
Gave Way to Wyckoff's New York Store Building 




Buck Hill Falls Inn, Near Cresco, in the Pocono Moi stain Region 

Buck Hill Falls was opened in uyn Lisa "Summer Settlement for Friendsand 
Friendly People." This unique resort of and for the "Society of Friends," or Quakers, 
to which "no consumptive or other person against whom there is a reasonable moral, 
social, racial or physical objection will be admitted," has been brought to success by 
the Buck Hill Fails Company. Charles F. Jenkins, publisher of the Farm Journal, 
Philadelphia, and owner of the Charmarie Farms in Monroe County, is the president. 
Charles N. Thompson is general manager. Mr. Jenkins specializes in Ayrshire stock. 



lions for the visitor at any one of the resorts within that 
region than can be found generally within such easy ac- 
cess to all. 

The camper finds everything his heart desires in the 
region for which the two Stroudsburgs, with their popula- 
tion of over 10,000, form a Summer Capitol and shopping 
center. Motoring and driving is a 
pleasure, made so by splendid 
roads, while those who enjoy a 
walking trip may feast their eyes 
for hours on natural scenery. Val- 
ley lands, arable to great depths, 
with a productive capacity re- 
sembling the prairies, greet the 
eye, as do large portions of broken, 
irregular and hilly stretches. Here 
are found the characteristic natural 
features of the Blue Mountain, the 
Delaware River and the Delaware 
Water Gap. Here also may be found 
the Pocono Mountains at an alti- 
tude of over 2,000 feet, a greater 
elevation than any point within 
equal distance of the two great 
cities of New York and Philadelphia, where "natural beau- 
ties of towering heights and leaping brooks" annually lure 
thousands of regular and transient visitors. 

The streams of Pennsylvania's Favored Region have 
given fame to this section among those who make fishing 
a delightful pastime. Besides the Delaware, which de- 
rives its present 
name from Lord De 
la Ware who visited 
the bay in 1610, there 
is Brodhead's Creek, 
conveying the water 
from the Pocono 
Mountain to the Del- 
a w a r e. It passes 
through a pictures- 
que country before 
reaching Smithfield. 
Marshall's Creek en- 
ters Brodhead's 
Creek a short dis- 
tance before the lat- 
ter reaches the Del- 
aware. Cherry Creek, 
named after Edward 
or "Ned" Cherry, one 
of the very early set- 
tlers before 1738, is 
another impo r t a n t 
stream right in 
Smithfield township. All are noted trout streams. Mar- 
shall's Creek is said to be named after Edward Marshall, 
the successful walker, or runner, in the "Walking Pur- 
chase." Brodhead's Creek derives its name from Daniel 
Brodhead, who settled on this stream at East Stroudsburg 



in 1738. The Indian name for it was Analorning. The 
Naversink, or Mammakatonk, enters the Delaware from the 
East of Port Jervis, the Bushkill from the West at the 
town of that name, thirty miles South of Port Jervis. This 
stream for years has been the dividing line between Mon- 
roe and Pike counties. 

Lakes, too, afford an interest in this region of more 
than ordinary character. Echo Lake, in Middle Smithfield 
township, and 
M inneola 
Lake, in 
Chestnut Hill 
township, are 
surrou n d e d 
by high banks 
of dirt and 
have no visi- 
ble outlet, al- 
though the 
former h a s 
a subterran- 
ean drainage 
into Cool- 
tough's pond 
and thence by 
the way of 
Pond Creek 
into Mar- 
shall's Creek; 
and the lat- 
ter has a sim- 
ilar outlet 
through the 
coarse gravel 
into McMich- 
ael's Creek, 
on e-f o u r t h 

mile distant. The beautiful lake branch of McMichael's 
Creek receives surface drainage over a low place in the 
drift environment of Lake Paupaunoming. Coolbaugh Lake, 
originally Jayne Lake, is fed by springs along its banks. 

If "half the troubles of mankind are due to the reckless 
use of language," Monroe County and its Tributary Coun- 
try is more than fortunate in not having had its share of 
troubles, although un- 
fortunate in never hav- 
ing had its full quota of 
language used to do 
justice to its thousand- 
fold natural beauties. 
That which elsewhere 
might have spelled ruin 
and destruction, the 
opening of the Blue 
Mountains admitting 
the passage of the Del- 
aware River on its jour 
ney to the ocean, has 
given to this section 
the Delaware Water 
Gap, one of the world's 
wonders. In the lan- 
guage of the Indians, 




Panoramic View of Delaware Water Gap — One of the World's Wonders Taken near the Double Horse 
Shoe Curve on the Scenic Route. This picture shows the Camp of the Morris Guard 
of Atlantic City. N. J., Whose Members Made Merry Here in 1914 

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tired city dweller rest for body and brain, enabling him and 
his to return to their labors refreshed. The Department of 
the Interior, through the Director of the United States 
Geological Survey, gives the railroad elevation at East 
Stroudsburg as 426 feet, and the approximate elevation for 
Bushkill, in Pike County, as 400 feet. Both arc a desirable 
minimum, insuring freedom from many ills, superinduced 
in cities close to sea level. As still higher altitudes within 

P e nnsylvan- 
ia's Favored 
Region a r 3 
freq uently 
only short dis- 
tances away, 
It can be seen 
that under 
the protecting 
arm of th<? 
high moun- 
tain ranges 
even the val- 
leys offer a 
c omplete 
change of cli 
matic condi- 
tions. 

Indian lore 
speaks of fall- 
ing waters 
t h r o u ghout 
the country. 
Monroe cnun 
ty Is richly 
endowed with 
natural scen- 
ic won d e r s 
for the ang- 
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Ihe Water Gap became the "Pohoqualin," or a river between 
two mountains. To them also the "Kittatinny" range, of 
the Blue Mountains or Blue Ridge Mountains, brought the 
meaning of "Endless Hills." Of the Pocono Mountains Phil" 
lips wrote: "There are waves of billowy blossoms on the 
hillsides now, I know, And the laurel foam is breaking on 
(he Heights of Pocono." 

All have their history, each and everyone bring to the 



THE COOLBAUGH COLLEGE INN, COOLBAUGH 
Dr. D. Davidson, Proprietor, Post Office, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



about three miles long and one-half mile wide," three miles 
to the south of Pocono Summit, the walks along the shores 
banked with stately pines and leading through rhododen- 
dron jungles, is easy of access. From Tobyhanna Station 
flies may be cast by the enthusiastic angler for twenty 
miles in the Tobyhanna (stream of falling water). Cresco 

and. Canadensis form the 
gateway to Eastern 
Angler's Park, Bright's 
Creek Park, Hunters' 
Lodge, South Sterling, 
Laanna, Rhododendron, 
Levis Falls, Buck Hill 
Falls, Indian Ladder 
Falls, Red Rock Falls 
and Spruce Cabin Falls. 
Saw Creek and 
Winona Falls are near 
Shoemaker's, on the 
Delaware Valley. From 
the village of Bushkill, 
"The Hub of the Dela- 
ware Valley," thou- 
sands annually go to 
see the Bushkill Falls, 
called "The Niagara of Pennsylvania," plunge its bound- 
less waters "over an almost perpendicular wall ninety feet 
in height down into a deep ravine whose rocky sides are 
completely covered with a heavy growth of hemlock." 

That it has become necessary for the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna & Western Railroad to run "Mountain Specials," 
enabling the busy New Yorker to spend week-ends with 
his family, testifies to the manifold attractions offered in 



this favored region for permanent summer residence. The 
Caldeno golf links bring us back to the vicinity of Dela- 
ware Water Gap, on the main line, of the "Lackawanna," 
a name of aboriginal origin, meaning, "Meeting of the 
Waters." Mount Minsi also owes its name to the Indian 
Minsi tribe, a branch of the Lenapes, who once over-lord- 
ed this whole region, then called "Minisink." Lenape Lake 
at the Water Gap, perched half way up the mountain side, 
still retains the old Indian name. 

To C. C. Worthington the county of Monroe owes much 
of its fame. Not only is the select Buckwood Inn, at Shaw- 
nee-on-the-Delaware, the result of his enterprise, but "The 
Golf Course of The Shawnee 
Country Club" has been inter- 
woven with the success of this 
foremost citizen in the county. 
Fifteen years ago the few golf 
links in America were extreme- 
ly crude. Although today over 
a quarter of a million people 
are actively playing the game 
and the country is studded with 
many hundreds of courses, 
those of real championship cal- 
ibre may be counted on the 
fingers of two hands. Shawnee 
Country Club's golf course 
was planned and developed in 
a portion of the valley of the 
upper Delaware River, pecul- 
iarly adapted to the require- 
ments of the ideal course, be- 
ing of 18 holes and 6,300 yards 
in length. Hazards of the mod- 
ern type added to those of Na- 
ture, miles of underground wa- 
ter pipes running to all parts 
of the course, turf conditions 
carefully studied, the fairways 
and greens developed by ex- 
perts, give the visitor the im- 
pression — with undoubted as- 
surance — that it ranks among 
the most famous golf courses 
in America. 

Going back into the Dela- 
ware Valley, beyond the ter- 
minus of the railway by that 
name, in Pike county, Tarni- 
nent Lake, with an area of 100 
acres, a depth of 60 feet and a 
solid rock bottom, and Forest 
Lake, with its 75 acres, includ- 
ed in the Forest Park Hotel 
property, beckon to the stranger 
an invitation to rest. A little 
further on, within a radius of 
five miles of Dingman's Ferry — 
reached over excellent natural 
shale roads — are High Falls, Silver Thread, Child's Park 
(in which are located the Factory, Fulmer and Deer Leap 
Falls), Adam's Brook, and the Indian Ladder, both of 
which are climbs up a succession of falls and cascades. 

The tavern was the name of the houses, affording rest 
and refreshment in the early days — even before the erec- 
tion of Monroe County— and Saylorsburg was one of the 
first to have such a structure. There is a public feeling 
against dry statistics, but to enumerate a few facts regard- 
ing such houses enables the Monroe county visitor to get a 
glimpse of interesting history. Charles and Samuel Saylor 
laid out Saylorsburg in 1825 and erected a tavern, of which 




Bushkill Falls. Near Bushkill, Pike County 
Snapped at an Opportune Moment. Generally the Great Volume 
of Water Makes It Impossible to Secure This Effect 



Peter Kemmerer became the first landlord. In 1833, Stroud 
J. Hollinshead, son of Dr. James Hollinshead, built the 
Stroudsburg House, which later became known as the Bur- 
nett House and is now known as the Hotel Fuimer, Sirouds- 
burg. Melchior Bossard, soon after 1842, erected a hotel 
at Bossardsville. Brodheadsville, oldest village in Chest- 
nuthill township— on land granted by "the Honorable the 
Proprietaries of Pennsylvania to William Serfass in fee," 
had a hostelry early in its history. 

Joseph Barton gave to Bartonsville a hotel soon after 
1833, and George Bowman was owner of a tavern at Para 
dise Valley in 1838. Joseph Kunkle was responsible for a 

hotel in Kunkletown as early 
as 1849. At Henryville, in 
1842, James Henry was known 
as a landlord. 

"Ross Common," on prop- 
erty of Hon. (Judg°) John 
Ross, was in early days a 
breakfast stop for travelers 
on extensive stage routes lead- 
ing to New York City and 
Philadelphia. Old "Jim Eley" 
was host. At the top of the 
Pocono a large, solitary hostel- 
ry—in the midst of "Huckle- 
berry Barrens"— proved to be 
a welcome sight to stage trav- 
elers who enjoyed the luscious 
dinners, served by one John 
Smith. Today the wayfarer 
dines in sumptuously furnish- 
ed dining cars en route with- 
out a stop. 

The Fort Penn House was 
built at Stroudsburg by John 
H. Mellick in 1851. It later be- 
came known as the Central 
House and is well remembered 
even by the younger genera- 
tion as an old Main street land- 
mark which recently was re 
placed by a modern structure, 
erected by the A. B. Wyckoff 
heirs. 

John Thomas, a native of 
Maine, who removed to Mon- 
roe county in 1853, built the 
Crystal Spring Hotel at East 
Stroudsburg in 1856. It was 
sold to John Kresge in 1861. 
James K. Fenner acquired the 
property in 1873. The Hotel 
Fenner stands in its place to- 
day. 

The finest school building 
in Monroe, erected at Delaware 
Water Gap in 1855, by a Rev. 
Mr. Howell, was sold by him 
in 1862, after he had decided to enter the Army, to Samuel 
Alsop, who used it as a school for one and one-half years, 
then named it "Glen Wood House" and took city guests. 
Richard Posten built the Analomink House, East 
Stroudsburg, in 1857. An addition to a dwelling house, al- 
ready standing in the same town in 1874, was built by Van 
Cott, who opened the reconstructed building as the Lacka- 
wanna House. 

The Indian Queen, since rebuilt, bears an early date of 
construction, as does the Washington House, both at 
Stroudsburg, and singularly both now owned by members 
of the well-known Shafer family. 



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The Automobile Roads of Monroe County Through to Pike Annually Draw Thousands For a Trip to Its Many Resorts. This view shows North 
Courtland Street, East Stroudsburg, on the Highway to Bushkill. A Few Hundred Feet Further North the Road is Wholly Free From Car Tracks 



SEE AMERICA FIRST AND ENJOY IT 
Among the prime movers of the "See America First" 
plan of instruction of the world traveler, making his homo 
under the protecting wings of the Stars and Stripes, was 
Tom Richardson, Oregon's famous booster and for years 
secretary of Portland's Commercial Club. He was sup- 
ported by a few at first, then by hundreds, until just before 
(.he war which has wrought such havoc in Europe, thou- 
sands began to see the advantage of at least having first 
seen the beauty spots of our country, in order to draw 
comparisons on merit. It has been my privilege to meet 
representatives of large firms who were forced by circum- 
stances to annually or several times a year visit Europe. 
In every case surprise checked their enthusiasm, as they 
(old of men and women whom they met abroad and who 
had told them that they had never seen the many and mar- 
velous scenic beauties of the U. S. A. 

Most of those whom I refer to had been born on foreign 
soil, had become American citizens, and had won the re- 
spect of thousands in responsible positions. For these high 
salaried representatives of import and export houses, the 



wail of the thousands who were caught in Europe at the 
beginning of the war which stands out prominently, as the 
history of 1915 is being written, must have brought to 
mind, with a double meaning, Scott's patriotic words: 
"Breathes there a man with soul so dead. 
Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, 
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, 
From wandering on a foreign strand?" 
There is every reason to feel that "Pennsylvania's Fa- 
vored Region" will benefit with other world-wonder sec- 
tions of America through the reaction of the war, as it 
relates to European bound pleasure travel. See all of 
America, if you will, but be sure to see Monroe County 
first. Come to Monroe County walking, autoing, driving, or 
riding in a parlor car, ye searcher after health, or new 
vitality, fish or game, golf or tennis, straw rides or country 
dance, fine dinners or homelike meals, and find all in abund- 
ance. With me today you will arrive at East. Stroudsburg, 
the station of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail- 




Annual Excursions Flock to Monroe County and Her Neighbor, Pike 

This croup shows only members of the Arion Society, and families, of .lersery City Heights, N. .1.. on their Labor Day Excursion to Monroe 
County Sight-Seeing. Photo Taken at Clambake of German Society of Monroe County at Salathe's Grove, East Stroudsburg 



road, direct from New York 
City. The days have been 
hot and sultry. We were glad 
to get away from the turmoil 
and the speed of the great 
cosmopolitan center and rest 
our weary bodies on the cush- 
ioned seats of the comforta- 
ble railway car. Our eyes 
feast on natural beauties en 
route, as the fast train rapid- 
ly plunges 10 its destination 
in the county of Monroe. For 
we left at 10 o'clock in the 
forenoon and the cut-off has 
shortened the distance. We 
get a glimpse of busy New 
Jersey towns in passing. But 
soon we sight the railroad 
construction wonders along 
the route, the new bridges 
which made the cut-off possi- 
ble. 

The Delaware Water Gap, 
one of the world's wonders, is 
caught by our artist's camera 
in passing, but the real beau- 





Sambo Falls, Near East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Marshall's Falls, Marshall's Creek, Pa. 



ties of this resort center must be left for closer inspection 
later on. The train moves on. Soon we pass other things 
of interest and are almost led to believe that the resort 
region is lost sight of, as large manufacturing plants are 
snapped by the camera. Again the train slops. We stretch 
our limbs and, leaving the car, find ourselves in the midst 
of a throng, crowd- 



ing the station plat- 
form. Hardly dare 
we believe that the 
great city lies be- 
hind us, for trains 
are passing in num- 
bers, the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad and 
the Delaware Valley 
Railway adding to the busy scene 



car, waiting at the station, joins the neighboring town 
closely to her sister community. You are also made aware 
of the fact that a short walk across the bridge would almost 
lead you to believe that the two are one. We are told that 
there is keen business rivalry between Stroudsburg and 
East Stroudsburg, but that the citizens realize that a 

greater Monroe coun- 
ty must depend upon 
the equal progress 
of the two towns to 
a great extent. 

Here we stop to 
take luncheon, be- 
fore we continue the 
trip which is to in- 
■'Get the Hook"— The Bass Are Here elude the whole coun- 

You ask in wonder: ty of Monroe and a part of Pike in the shortest possible 




"Where are we?" And I reply: "At East Stroudsburg." time One of us makes the arrangements for two large 

Again the question comes from your lips: "But, where is touring cars at the Burnett Garage nearby while another 

Stroudsburg?" escorts the members of the party to the Hotel Fenner, just 

Soon you are acquainted with the fact that the trolley below the station, where special tables have been reserved. 

After a good repast we await some friends 
of Tom Milton's, who have telephoned from 
the Indian Queen Hotel, Stroudsburg, that 
they will join our party. There are seven 
of them and a brief introduction all around 
proves them jolly, wholesome companions. 
They want us to go back with thtm fust 
to meet the folks, but we insist on the 
original plan of giving Stroudsburg and East 
Stroudsburg the once-over at greater leisure. 
We do, however, find pleasure in meeting 
at the Fenner the genial J. A. Seguine, who 
immediately proceeds to sing the praises 
of Cresco, Canadensis, Mountainhome, and 
other spots on the road to the higher up 
Pocono section. J. A. Hoopes reminds us 
between whiles that the real thing would 
be found by us in the Pocouos. To remain 
friends, we promise both to make separate 
trips to their parts of Monroe. For we came 
to see it all. And now we say, "Auf Wieder- 

Bushkill Glen, Bushkill-A Beauty Spot InHke County. sehen " to W " H ' GibbS ' tllC FeDner U ° St ' 




It is just one-thirty. The vitality has 
been given new impetus by a daintily 
served meal, and the bracing air gives 
us all a new grip on life. The motor 
cars are ready. On one the genial 
Harry P. Custard is himself "the man 
on the box." The signal is given by 
Miss Helen Hunt, who was last to en- 
ter, and we are off. Rapidly we pass 
up North Courtland Street. We stop 
to chat with Mr. Charles Decker, who 
emerged from the Prospect House, 
just around the corner from the church, 
to give us a friendly greeting. At The 
Maplehurst, under the leadership of 
happy Martin L. Bach and Mrs. Bach, 
the owners, we exchanged greetings 
with some of our friends and are off 
once more. 

We pass Milford Crossing, hurried- 
ly pick up the flowers brought to the 
highway from the greenhouses of Paul 
Mader. And now for Craig's Mead- 
ows, where we stop a moment at 
Pehr's Liberty House, to smoke up 
and stretch our limbs. The next stop 
is Marshall's Creek, where mine host 
Norman Huffman awaits us. Boats are ready at the lake 
and we see the sights roundabouts, including the beautiful 
Marshall's Falls. A telephone message by Miss Martha 
Delafield to one of her friends at the Mountain Lake House, 
nearby, compels us to make a slight detour to exchange 
greetings. Dr. Davidson, just a little further up the maiu 
drive at Coolbaugh, stops us to bring sweets for the sweet 
in the party, and after showing us around the camp bids 
us a pleasant farewell. As night is drawing near, we de- 
cide to sup at the Oak Grove House and return to Ed. K. 
Wyckoff's popular resort. After supper we take a moon- 
light boat ride. Our chauffeurs light up the cars and we 
speed on to Echo Lake, where Dr. Van Allen has reserved 
rooms for our over-night accommodation upon receiving 
a telephone message from Oak Grove that we were coming. 

Arising early, we 
took a stroll to tha 
lake and then took 
to the boats, rowing 
across to A. T. 
Shinn's famous bung 
alow town, where we 
visited the Marvins, 
who were spending 
their summer here. 
After playing ball 
with the little Mar- 
vins, we said good- 
bye, returning by 
boat to the other 
shore, where our cars 
were ready. By & 
o'clock we arrived at 
Turn Villa, where M. 
D. Turn had our 
breakfast wa i t i n g. 
Following the repast, 
we took a sun bath 
in the comfortable 
settees provided here 
and rested the while. 
To spend the forenoon, 




Winona Falls 



its rugged beauty and scenic sur- 
roundings, and hasten to Germonds 
for luncheon. Here Mrs. Germond 
greets us with that soft intonation, I 
for which the French are famous, 
while her husband puts the finishing 
touches on the exquisite dainties to be 
set before us. Acting on the advice 
of friends we partake of the table 
d'hote dinner, putting our faith in the 
host, and receive the promised sur- 
prise. We feel that the price will be 
quickly forgotten, for the meal leaves 
a lingering for an opportunity to come 
again. Madame was right, when she 
said: "We aim to please." 

There is a desire among the mem- 
bers of the party to follow up this 
luncheon with a sightseeing trip that 
shall bear promise of equal satisfac- 
tion, and the lots are cast for Bush- 
kill Falls. The afternoon is plsasantly 
spent here, climbing and jumping, 
strolling and viewing. For nature has 
been kind to this spot, where the rov- 
ing spirit finds an outlet for unbound- 
ed enthusiasm. It is five o'clock and 



the exercise has left its impression upon the inner man. 
Mrs. Jacob Place, of the Mountain View House, on the 
crest of the hill overlooking the town of Bushkill, prom- 
ised earlier in the day to have supper ready for us at 5.45. 
And we feel equal to the occasion. After a delightful meal, 
which reminds us of farm supplies and home cooking, we 
proceed to the Peters House, where Hon. E. F. Peters and 
his brother Harry have agreed to care for us over night. 
The evening is devoted to varied pleasures, for the ladies 
are perfectly at home among the numerous friends whom 
they find staying here and hereabouts. 

In the morning we arise refreshed in body and spirit 
and leave at six-thirty for Guillot Bros, poultry farm, where 
Clinton Guillot has promised us a novel sight. It sort of 
proves an appetizer for our breakfast, for which Joseph 




Lake Marshall, Marshall's Creek, Pa. 

we take in Winona Falls, admirin? C. Kennedy, of the Bushkill Inn, expects us. The modern 



hennery is pleasing to the eye, while the chickens look 
good enough to eat. It is barely possible that friend Ken- 
nedy had this in mind. For we were treated to an unusual 
breakfast. Real milk and 
honey was set before us in 
abundance, while Standley 
asked Herlin, if he knew 
whether the chicken and 
eggs both came from Guil- 
lot's. "They looked s o 
fresh." Bushkill Inn left 
nothing to be desired, for 
Kennedy knows the business 
of catering to his guests. 
After breakfast some of us 
called at Turn & Cook's 
store, to meet the son of 
J. H. Cook and to inquire 
about the Riverside, a little 
distance further on — along 
the Delaware. We learned 




Wheir Lake— Near Gilbert, Pa. 



by halves, even when his guests are comparative stran- 
gers. Forest Park caters to a class of its own, but of the 
best in their class. None will doubt my statement that. 

the guests we met were not 
only some of the leading 
business men of New York 
City and elsewhere, but 
men and women whose in- 
fluence is ever working for 
the best interests of their 
communities. 

After supper we return to 
Bushkill, remaining over 
night at the Bushkill Inn. 
An early breakfast puts us 
in shape for an excellent 
extended day trip over the 
River Road to the Delaware 
Water Gap. Our first stop 
on the way is Charles R. 
Turn's Model Farm. Mr. 



that Mr. Cook had become host at the resort, where years 
ago a few of us had found renewed strength and many 
friends. The Riverside, being in his charge, was sure 
to afford us pleasure, as of old. Fishing had 
been forgotten in the up run. But now we 
felt that it would be good sport for a day, 
preparatory to another day's run or two 
through this section. We were, however, 
first to be the noon meal guests of Mrs. 
Charles F. Holsterman, who had sent word 
to the store that she expected us at the 
Peters House, where she was staying. 

Accepting the invitation, we put our car 
in the garage and strolled about the town, 
buying postcards, meeting friends at the 
station, inspecting the old mill, and getting 
oiled up where the gasolene was still on 
tap. After luncheon we went to meet Mr. 
J. H. Cook who had promised by telephone 
to have fishing tackle ready for us on our 
arrival at the Riverside. We had fish to 
fry that evening for supper at his house and 
had some broiled as well. Our own catch 
was not needed to make a complete meal. 
Music followed the supper, for Clarence Stoll 
is an artist at the piano, while another guest 
supplied some of the old Southern melodies 
on his banjo. We rested well, but rose early 
to breakfast before the chauffeurs got the 
cars out. As we had accepted a special in- 
vitation to see the unique resort, known as the Forest 
Park Hotel, under the personal guidance of host Arthur 
Lederer, we departed for that spot at eight o'clock. The 




"It's a Bear" 
Shot in the Poconos 



Turn came up the night before in his own automobile to 

join our party, in order to show us the way. We enjoyed 

seeing the blooded stock, the latest equipment in his barn, 

and the dainty breakfast set before us. Then 

a spin around the farm area completed an 

interesting visit. 

With Mr. Turn to guide us, we then stop 
for a brief inspection of the farm, owned by 
George R. Elder, the genial superintendent of 
the Ingersoll-Rand plant at Phillipsburg, N. J. 
Charles C. Worthington had luncheon ready 
for us at the Buckwood Inn, and personally 
took us around to the beautiful grounds and 
buildings, erected through his enterprise at 
Shawnee-on-the-Delaware, where he has built 
up an exclusive resort. The excellent golf links 
give a brief opportunity for the enjoyment of 
an interesting sport to some of the members 
of our party who had been here before. 

After leaving this ideal resort, we take in 
Buttermilk Falls, and later at the Buttermilk 
Falls House chat for a few moments with 
Mrs. Anson Carter, who always prefers the 
simplicity of this house to larger places. She 
is spending a few weeks here with her daugh 
ter. Fronting on the Silver Lake, this house 
has the full benefit of good boating facilities. 
Some of the folks take to the boats, while the 
rest of us go to the Willow Dell, nearby, to 
visit with Tom Milton's brother and a bunch 
of the boys who are recuperating from their college stud- 
ies. Here they are getting rid of brain fag. The boat- 
ing party walked from the Buttermilk Falls House to the 




ON THE LEFT 
Pocono Falls 
Bartonsville 

ON THE RIGHT 

A Shady Nook 

Tannersville 




unprejudiced mind will bear me out that we were given 
the time of our lives, for Mr. Lederer does not do things 



Willow Dell, where Messrs. Seguine & Altemose are the 
hosts. We jump into our automobiles and are on our way. 



At the Cataract House, under the management of Gar- 
rett R. Tucker, a billiard tournament has been arranged 
by this hustling owner, with some guests of the house to 
oppose Tom Milton, Jack Riordan, and others of our party. 
As our boys are the win- 
ners, we enjoy with the 
losers the excellent cigars, 
while the ladies appear to 
derive great pleasure from 
the sweets which were 
their part of the stake. 

Our next stop is the 
North Gap Cottage, Eu- 
gene Heller, owner. We 
find here Miss Clarice 
Miller's sister, Ellen, who 
has an important post in 
the educational field of 
New York State. Her stor- 
ies of good fishing at Sil- 
ver Lake, nearby, and of 
interesting tramping trips, 
make us wish for more 
time. But Miss Clarice is 
as much in a hurry to 
complete the trip, as we 
are, and so we drive on, 




John's friend, we had a real German-American meal and 
then joined some of the other folks at the Bellevue, where 
Harvey Blair, of Conway and Blair, the owners, added his 
car to ours, and then led the way for a spin around the 

town. Incidentally he 
gave us a chance to see 
Lenape Lake perched half 
way up the mountain side. 
Then we rolled away 
in our cars to Eilenber- 
ger's Boat Landing, where 
we found most of the 
folks in our party waiting. 
The boat ride on the Dele- 
ware was thoroughly en- 
joyed. Returning to the 
house owned by Conway 
and Blair, we all had din- 
ner. We scattered later 
in the evening, some re- 
maining at this house, 
Dick Boner and I going to 
Delawanna Inn, where a 
friend of ours had taken 
quarters for the season. 
This gave us a chance to 
have a chat about some 



Paradise Falls, between Henryville and Cresco 

after a brief farewell. Next we see the process of manu- business matters, in which we were jointly interested, 
facture at the Analomink Paper Mills, where Layton Nau- Harry Neal and some of the girls, including his sister, 

man, the manager, does the honors. The pangs of hunger Mildred, went to the Water Gap House on the hills. John 
are getting into evidence, and we quickly rush on to the Purdy Cope, owner, calls it, "The Mountain Paradise." 
Delaware House, where we had tables In the morning we all assemble at 

reserved. John Yarrick, the owner — Sfife^\ Lamb's souvenir store, each party 

of this famous Delaware Water Gap .s&k bringing their own car. Taking a hur- 

House, just opposite the railroad sta- ^^| \ ried spin under the leadership of 

tion, carefully looked after our in mk K\ Jos. H. Graves, one of the famous 

terests. As we arrived late, we flB j&k Deleware Water Gap Boosters, to Fox- 

deemed it wise to remain over night. /& mm, town Hill, we admire the renowned 

At the Deleware Water Gap we S K Cherry Valley, with its well devel- 

find much of interest, since each and R oped farms. At this point we take 

every member of our party has 19 \^S Ml notice also of thai great trout stream, 

friends who are staying at one of the \t=~ I ^| ■/ Cherry Creek, and its resemblance to 

many houses here. John Schmetter- \ vJA W the snaDe of a gian1 s 1 "" 1 

ling and I visit our friend, William & And then we go to the Kittatinny 

Miller, at the Oaks. John had met Hotel, taking luncheon. At the 

the owner of this house, Charles Bar- 9r Hauser's Souvenir Store we take the 

get, in former years and so we were scenic route — the trolh y line of the 

quickly introduced to Mrs. Barget, ~~ ""' Stroudsburg, Water Gap and Port- 

and Mr. Barget's son who was up from Trout-The Pride of Monroe County ]and Railway Company— t o the 

the city. We had to wait for Miller who was out auto- County Seat, where we put up at the Indian Queen, an all- 



mobiling, but the genial host of this house took us out 
on the lawn, where we had comfort and pleasure, view- 
ing the landscape and the horizon from this spot, to many 
Known as "Water Gap Heights." After the arrival of 



year-round high class hotel, visited in the summer by 
many regular guests. W. S. Shafer, the owner, and 
Hal Harris, the sprightly manager, gave us cordial greet- 
ing. We had feasted on the scenery, coming from the Gap, 





Mountain Spring Lake and Ice Houses, Near Reeders, Pa. 



Trout Lake and Ice Houses, Near Reeders, Pa. 



10 



but had only thus sharpened our appetites for the dainty 
meal ready for us soon after our arrival. The evening 
was spent at The Stroud, a theatre in fact, not an excuse. 
We were surprised both in its arrangement, in the active 
management, and the offering of the evening by a good 
road stock company. The night was spent at the Indian 
Queen, where we 
also remained 
the following 
day, its perfect 
refinement hold- 
ing all of us to 
seek rest, before 
undertaking an- 
other trip. This 
also gave us a 
chance to take in 
the town, for 
there was much 
to see here. We 
enjoyed the sight 
of the falls at 
the Fifth Street 
bridge, almost in 
the heart of this 
hustling town, 
where inciden- 
tally the water 
serves the inter- 
ests of the 
Stroudsburg 
Woolen Mills. 

The West end of Monroe County is our next objective. 
We leave on the second morning after an early breakfast, 
going through the Cherry Valley to Stormsville, Bossards- 
ville, to Sciota, and then to Saylorsburg. Leaving our cars 
at the Inn, we took a stroll around the large brick plant, 
where they make enameled or tiled brick. Then we visit 
some friends at nearby cottages — built there by them, be- 
cause there is more and more convenience of access (by 



the Inn, conducted in connection with the numerous 
brick plant. It is patronized by some of the best people 
of the country who enjoy a spin through this section, and 
by officials of the brick company, coming from their head- 
quarters in Metuchen, N. J., and their friends. 

Soon we are on our way rejoicing. We reach Mcll- 




trolley) in sight. Wind Gap is to be the traffic center of 
this new route. We take a look at the Latta property, a 
summer home of distinction, owned by Mr Latta, a well- 
known business man of Bethlehem. Our luncheon we 
found ready for us — daintily prepared — as soon as we reach 



Pocono Hotel, on Pocono Creek, Tannersville, Pa., C. E. Trach, Proprietor 
Fine Fishing and Hunting in Season at This Automobile Headquarters 

haney's, sweep on to Brodheadsville, where we visit the 
Fairview Academy, in the High School Building, take in 
Lake Mineola, and continue through Pleasant Valley to 
Gilbert's. On the way we stop at Shupp's Wheir Lake 
Creamery, inspect the lake which appears to have neither 
inlet nor outlet, go on to the Polytechnic Institute, where 
Prof. Christman is principal, who gives us directions 
for a hurried trip to Kresgeville, a pretty little place, and 

then also to 
Kunkletown. We 
return without 
mishap to Effort 
that night, a 
tired, but happy 
crowd. 

As we had ar- 
ranged with the 
owner of the Ef- 
fort House to 
look for us, we 
had no trouble 
to get a late sup- 
per. Frank Wer- 
net, runs this 
house, and he 
surely knows his 
business. We had 
a good meal, af- 
ter we had clean- 
ed up, and then 
some of the boys 
enjoyed pocket 
pool. Miss Miller 
played some late 
This house proved 




A Beauty Spot at McMichaels. Where Fishing and Hunting Is Real Sport 
Every Season the McMichaels Hotel is the Headquarters of the Pohoqualine Fish Association 



music for the rest of us on the piano 
a surprise to all of us who had expected that we would 
find a backwoods hostelry instead of a modern hotel with 
splendid service. In the morning we enjoyed the shady 
walks of this little hamlet, taking in the Turn Pike, north 



I 1 



of "Cedar Hill" stimulating our appetite for a hearty 
breakfast, coming almost wholly from the farm, run by 
Mr. Wernet in connection with the Effort House. After 
breakfast Homer A. Shupp, manager of the spoke works, 
known under the firm name of Simon Shupp and Co., took 
us to his plant, where he had some spokes and a few axe 
handles turned out, while we 
looked on. Then we went to 
the post office, a short dis- 
tance away, where the post- 
master, H. W. Dinstel, owner 
of the Snowflake Roller 
Mills, and a general store 
conducted by him in the name 
of G. Dinstel and Son, had 
a treat in store for us. After 
he had handed us some mail. 
forwarded to this point from 
Stroudsburg, he invited us to 
an unusual repast, some flap- 
jacks, made with the product 
of his mill, the Snowflake 
Self-Raising Buckwheat flour, 
served with maple syrup. 
We returned to the hotel, 
chatting incidentally with J. 
D. Serfas, another merchant 
and member of the Board of 
Directors of the Security 
Trust Company of Strouds- 
burg, while the cars were be- 
ing supplied with gasoline. 

Then we went through Appenzell to Reeders, where 
we visited Trout Lake and Mountain Spring Lake. Get- 
ting smokes for the boys at Reeders' Hotel and candy 
for the ladies at Warner's store, we find ourselves pre- 
pared to go direct from this point, where visitors are 
practically at the base of Pocono Mountains, to McMich- 
aels. Here we decide to remain a day, after we had a 
taste of the excellent cuisine, for which McMichaels' Hotel 



every year to enjoy this sport, as well as pheasant hunt- 
ing in season. After supper, there is music, the piano, 
the banjo and the graphophone affording plenty of variety. 
Electric lights made the surroundings pleasant and the 
large reception room looked liked city life, but the cool 
breezes recalled the fact that we were far away from home. 




Rustic Bridge on the Way to the Monomonock Inn, Mountainhome, Pa 

is noted. Luncheon over, we accept the invitation of 
seme of the members of the Pohoqaline Pish Association, 
having its headquarters at this house, to go trout fishing. 
This club includes some of the best citizenship of Penn- 
sylvania's leading city, Philadelphia, and other places. 
These folks from the city of Brotherly Love come here 
as one happy family — intent on forgetting business cares — 



The Sterling, E. D. Dunning, Proprietor, South Sterling, Wayne County, Pa. 
Tobyhanna is the Railroad Station on the Lackawanna for This Popular House 

In the morning some of our boys enjoy a little target 
practice with a few of the club members. After luncheon 
we go on our way once more, this time to return to Strouds- 
burg. We go back to Appenzell and to Snydersville, tak- 
ing gasoline at the Snydersville Hotel. The peculiar lay of 
the land arouses our curiosity and we learn that glaciers 
long ago were supposed to be responsible for the formation. 
They art- ieported to have come through from the north, 

dissolving here and making 
deposits in the territory 
roundabouts. Here may be 
seen stone of a composition, 
not found elsewhere; lakes 
in the neighborhood are also 
supposed to be the result of 
the glaciers' journey from the 
north. With this informa- 
tion to hold us for a while, 
we take the Snydersville 
Road direct to Stroudsburg, 
this time putting up at the 
Washington House, where 
mine host Ed Shafer gives us 
a royal reception. While 
running a popular priced 
house, Mr. Shafer apparently 
has due regard for the com- 
fort of his guests. 

We have plenty of time 

for dinner, so that we are 

glad to retire to our rooms 

for a while, and thoroughly 

After the meal we go to vari- 




renovate our appearance. 

ous places of amusement, such as the motion picture 
shows. Some of us go to East Stroudsburg, taking in the 
fine pictures at The Plaza. Later we meet at Nyce's for 
ice cream. The next day we give East Stroudsburg the 
once over, taking dinner at the Hotel Fenner, and supper 
at Whitesell's, enjoying at the latter place the change to 



12 



steaks of the highest city standard. Spending the night 
at the Fenner, we rise early and accept an invitation to 
breakfast at the Lackawanna House with T. J. Knox, the 
famous art photographer of East Stroudsburg, known 
favorably to thousands of Monroe County 
summer guests. 

At the conclusion of this enjoyable meal, 
we start out again in automobiles for a 
trip to the Poconos. This time nearly all 
of the cars are Fords, most of them from 
Price's Garage, nearby. Dr. Anson Singer, 
the booster president of the East Strouds- 
burg Board of Trade, courteously extends 
the use of his car, under his own guidance. 
Charles R. Turn, general manager of the 
International Bailer Works — who had shown 
us through his plant the day before, as did 
President M. R. Yetter, of the East Strouds- 
burg Glass Co., and We A. Gilbert, presi- 
dent of the William A. Gilbert Co., silk 
manufacturers, also joined the party. We 
hardly expected to be shown the courtesy 
of a visit to their plants. Much less did we 
anticipate their company on this trip with 
friends in their cars, chosen from among 
summer guests and a few other local boosters. Strouds- 
burgers in the party were noticed under the leadership 
of Ernest H. Wyckoff, the merchant, who drove his own 
car. It was a humdinger of a crowd, and we certainly 
had a grand time throughout this trip up the mountains. 

We go to Analo- 
mink first, where Bar- 
rett G. Decker, all- 
round business man. 
mill owner and hotel 
proprietor, points out 
the advantage of this 
pleasure trip along 
Brodhead's Creek, 
with its varying 
beauty spots all the 
way from Stroudsburg 
to Canadensis. And 
then he takes us over 
to the store and says: 




W. H. Gibbs, Manager Hotel 
Fenner, East Stroudsburg 



on the other. It was daintily done. And so was our meal 
daintily served. We enjoyed the pictures, telling of fam- 
ily history. Acting on Mr. Henry's suggestion, we run 
over to Red Rock Falls, leaving our cars near that point, 
to get a close view. And then we pro- 
ceeded to Paradise Falls, in the beautiful 
Paradise Valley. It was a novel sight to 
the city man, to find here rustic benches 
and bridges, to enhance nature's handi- 
work and to make a complete tour of the 
falls possible. It took nearly the whole 
afternoon, so that we passed Paradise, 
where a Jefferson homestead is still located, 
quickly and reached Maple Lawn, H. B. 
Courtright's splendid summer boarding 
house, just in time to give us a chance 
to visit his observatory before dinner was 
served. Schmetterling found his brother 
and sister staying here for a two weeks' 
vacation. They told him that they came 
up here for a change, instead of going to 
the seashore, as first planned. 

As we had an invitation to a lawn party 
at J. A. Seguine's home for that evening, 
we left soon after supper, stepping in at 
The Rudolph merely to give Milton a chance to see his 
father, who spends the summer here. We found the Seguine 
home, just outside of Cresco, brightly illuminated, the 
porches strung with garlands and Japanese lanterns. From 
the trees the lights also shone brightly. We enjoyed our- 




Beauty Spots Near the Gap, in Monroe County, l'a. 



"have something on me," spreading 
before us cigars and candies to choose from. He tops 
it all by inviting us to his beautiful home close by, where 
he holds out dainty cups of coffee to the ladies, while we 
smoke on the porch. After showing us 
the sights around the place, he bids us 
stop at Henryville, where he promises us 
good attention from E. R. Henry, the 
owner of the Henryville House. We 
observed on the way some unusual scenic- 
beauty, near the new concrete bridge 
of the Lackawanna road, formerly known 
to some of us as High Bridge, before it 
was rebuilt. And even now it looks high. 
as the trains speed by overhead. Brod- 
head's Creek shows well in this vicinity, 
and fishing is good. 

At Henryville House we find lun- 
cheon ready for us and notice special 
table decorations, possibly for our bene- 
fit. We suspect some of our friends 
from the two Stroudsburgs. For the 
state bridge over Brodhead's Creek, 
joining mother and daughter closely, is 




selves, until we realized that midnight was close at hand. 
Through the co-operation of Mr. Seguine, our entire party 
was advantageously quartered for the night, at various 
houses close by. Some of us remained at the quiet Cliff 
View, owned by Chas. Kolb; others at 
the Cresco Hotel, where George F. Smith 
holds forth, and a number went to 
Heller's Mount Airy House, at Mountain- 
home. We took our cars to our respec- 
tive sleeping quarters and after break- 
fast met at the Seguine store, where he 
in his own car joined our party and es- 
corted us to the mountain resort, Mono- 
monock inn, near Mountainhome. The 
sight appealed to our fancy and we pro- 
mised ourselves a brief vacation upon 
its completion for the 1915 season, just 
to enjoy city conveniences amidst na- 
tural surroundings of extraordinary 
beauty. As this edition goes forth with 
the pictures of the Inn, showing its ad- 
vanced stage of perfection, those in our 
party last summer will think twice of 
Harry E. Geissinger's Monomonock Inn, 



Cranberry falls, Panxiersville, Pa. 

represented in miniature, with Miss East Stroudsburg ex- at Mountainhome, Pa., before they will forget the origi 
tending the hand of fellowship on one side to Stroudsburg nal plans made for this coming season. 

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It is my be- 



lief that all of us would go to see it finished. The nearest 
thing we saw completed last year, was the electric light 
plant and the marvelous kitchen layout, showing the re- 
frigerating storage capacity divided, so that nothing can 
become tainted, meat being away from the butter, etc., 
vegetables being separate from the rest. We looked in 
at the Pleasant Ridge, the host — Mr. Janney — being known 
to some members of our party. 

Next we saw the sights at Buck Hill Falls, and when 
luncheon time came found ourselves called to the tables 
at Buck Hill Falls Inn, where Charles N. Thompson, the 
genial manager, introduced us to the toastmaster of the 
occasion, who was none other than 
Charles F. Jenkins, president of the 
association. Matters had been so ar- 
ranged for obvious reasons that we 
had the spacious dining room to our- 
selves, the many regular guests of 
this famous Quaker resort having 
been served ahead of our party. 
Whether it was believed that we would 
all locate in Monroe or at least in 
nearby Pike or Wayne County, to raise 
cattle, each and every one found place 
cards weighted down with a dainty 
little Ayrshire cow, done to perfection 
in a splendid cake mixture by the chef 
of this institution. It was just a 
novel way to continue the Ayrshire 
propaganda, in which Mr. Jenkins, the 
Philadelphia publisher of the Farm 
Journal, is ever leader. 

After luncheon we went to Cana- 
densis, again dividing our forces in 
various houses for the night. Some 
of us remained at Frank G. Brown's 
Green Valley House located right 
in the heart of the hamlet. Mr. Brown 
is a young man, full of energy, ac- 
commodates many automobilists in 
season, as well as a large number 
of regular guests. The house is open 
all the year. A few went up to Laurel 
Grove, just above the Barrett High 
School, while others found friends at 
George W. Crane's Pine Knob Inn, 
nearby. In the evening we all met at 
Hensler's Amusement Hall, within 
fifty feet of the Green Valley House, 
where a dance had been arranged. 
Refreshments consisted of Mr. Hen- 
sler's own production in the ice cream 
line, the red, white and blue having 
been provided as a color effect in 
this frozen dainty, to call our atten- 
tion to the fact that the owner of 
this amusement hall knows how to 
do things. Soda water and other soft 
drinks made frequent appeals to those 
in our party who danced. I felt so 
tired that I rejoiced to think that my 
lot had been cast for Mr. Brown's hotel, almost next door 
so that I could retire promptly after the party broke up 

In the morning after breakfast we all went over to 
Price Bros. On the way we picked up those who stayed 
at Crane's, where they had chosen to be with the host 
who had hunted with them during the previous season' 
From his place we got a glimpse of Brodhead's Creek 
again, all the way to Spruce Cabin Inn. We spent the 
morning looking over the trophies, the game and fish 
adorning the wall and little nooks everywhere. It makes 



my mouth water to think of the noon day meal here, which 
was on the folks from the Stroudsburgs. They simply told 
us, when luncheon was ready, to "come on in, the water is 
fine." And when it came to pay, we were told that Dr. 
Singer, of East Stroudsburg, and Ernest H. Wyckoff, of 
Stroudsburg, had already paid the bill. And we were never 
able to find out to whom we remained indebted. 

As some of our friends are staying at various Wayne 
County houses, we decide to accept an invitation to a 
card party, arranged for our benefit at The Sterling, South 
Sterling, Pa., E. D. Dunning, the proprietor, having guar- 
anteed by telephone that the whole party would be well 




SILVER LAKE FALLS 

(Deriving its name from beautiful Silver 

Lake.) To many known as Cataract Falls. 

Between Cataract House and Buttermilk 

Falls House, at North Water Gap, Pa. 




taken care of for one night. While we did not all stay at 
his house, we feel satisfied that more could not have been 
done for so large a party at this time of the year any- 
where. The breakfast at The Sterling was thoroughly 
enjoyed. Soon after breakfast we started on a run to 
Tobyhanna, where we visited the U. S. Artillery Training 
Camp, Major Summerall making our stay as agreeable as 
his limited time allowed. Here are over 75,000 acres de- 
voted to one purpose, the betterment of the military ser- 
vice. The camp, the practice shoot, and all other things 



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proved a novelty after much sight-seeing of a different 
nature. At Lynch's store we filled up on cigars and candy, 
and then we proceeded to the Mountain House, also at 
Tobyhanna, where we had 
luncheon. 

Next we ran our cars to 
Pocono Summit, where we 
found a busy summer scene 
quite in contrast with an ex- 
perience some of us had the 
winter before. We took to 
the boats at Lake Naomi, 
three miles to the south, and 
after that enjoyed the beau- 
tiful shore walks through 
stately pines and rhododen- 
dron jungles. Then we 
feasted our eyes to our 
heart's content on the big 
plateau, where good farms 
abound on the top of the 
mountain, took in Long Pond 
of the mountain 
a year ago 




The Post Office at Mount Pocono, Pa., Is a Busv Center in Summer 



a big sheet of water on top 
where Jack Robeson shot a bear over 
Returning to Pocono Summit, we ate a late 



dinner and made the run to 
Mt. Pocono. Fortunately we 
had telephoned to G. M. 
Shoemaker, of the Fairview 
House, who succeeded in 
quartering all but twelve of 
our party. We had a royal 
time here in the evening, 
and rested well. Others of the 
party went to The Belmont 
for the night. In the morn- 
ing after breakfast at the 
Fairview, we walked over to 
the Mount Pleasant House, 
where the owners, W. A. and 
H. M. Leach, gave us an 
opportunity to inspect their 
big poultry farm. Then we 
walked back to the Pocono 
Mountain House, where we 




reached the Meadowside Inn for breakfast. Here we left 
Stoll and Schmetterling behind us, one at the Ontwood 
where Stoll's mother was spending the summer, and the 

other remaining at Meadow- 
side Inn, whose host, E. H. 
Smith, proved to be an old 
acquaintance. All forenoon 
the young folks in our party 
had played tennis here, so 
that we reached the Forest 
House just in time to lunch 
with the owner's brother, 
Monroe County's treasurer. 
W. J Hamblin, who had 
phoned to Dr. Singer that he 
would be ready for us at 
one o'clock. Through the 
courtesy of Harry T. Ham- 
blin, the genial owner of 
this home-like place, we se- 
cured our mail here. 
We stopped a moment at the beautiful home of Dr. 
Fisher, secretary of the Pocono Fire Protective Associa- 
tion, where we became enthusiasts of forest preservation. 

And then we inspected the 
famous Slee Laboratories, 
through the courtesy of Dr. 
Richard Slee, the founder. In 
him we found a man of re- 
fined tastes, though simple in 
manner, who made us appre- 
ciate more than anyone else 
could have, that the output 
of these laboratories, reach- 
ing as they do the military 
departments and the lead- 
ing men in the profession, is 
keeping before the eyes of 
the world the natural advan- 
tages of Monroe County. To 
have such men located here. 
is great advertisement for the 
county, one difficult to set 
down in dollars and cents. 



A Beauty Spot Near the Pinehurst, Canadensis, Pa. 

had arranged with the proprietor, E. E. Hooker, Jr., for His son, Arthur M. Slee, took us around the neighborhood 

our luncheon. Tennis and golf were pleasant pastimes sight-seeing, for here — at Swiftwater — is a splendid hunt- 



for some members of our party. Those who 
know say that this house has been practi- 
cally under the same management for near- 
ly forty years. Some two hundred guests 
can be comfortably accommodated here. 

Ice cream and soft drinks were enjoyed 
at Phillips' Souvenir Store across the way 
from Mr. Shoemaker's hotel, and then we 
secured our cars at Smith's Livery, ex- 
pressed our appreciation of the high class 
service rendered us at the Fairview through 
the co-operation of Mrs. Shoemaker, anil 
went to Pocono Manor. Here we inspected 
the famous settlement, Mr. Hooper, the su- 
perintendent of what to many is known as 
Quakertown, personally directing us. So 
thoroughly did he succeed in holding our 
attention, so naively did he succeed in 
granting us permission to look for trout 
in Deep Hollow, that it was dinner time 
before we realized it. Not wishing to in- 
trude upon the privacy of his many guests, 
we returned to the Fairview and once more remained over 
night. We felt a liberty to leave early next morning and 




Harry E. Geissinger, Who Will 

Manage the New Moimmonnck 

Inn at Mountainhome. Pa. 



ing and fishing preserve, fine trout, and the 
popular Swiftwater House. We reached 
Tannersville in time for dinner at the Po- 
cono Hotel, conducted by Charles E. Trach. 

Henry S. Cattell, a prominent Philadel- 
phian and compiler of interesting facts on 
the early history affecting what is now in 
part Monroe County, in his book, entitled 
"The Pocono Plateau," writes of Sullivan's 
Expedition. He quotes the following from 
General John S. Clark's note to Harden- 
burgh's Journal: "Learn's log tavern, north- 
west of Stroudsburg, twenty-eight miles 
from Easton. The main army encamped here 
June 19th, at camp called Pocono Point. 
This was the last house between Easton 
and Wyoming. On the third day of July 
1781, Mr. Learn was shot and scalped near 
his house, as also was his son, George. An- 
other son, John, shot one of the Indians 
who was left on the spot where he fell. The 
Indians carried off George Learn's w T ife and 
an infant four months old, but not wishing to be encom- 
bered with the child, dashed out its brains." 



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'Pocono Knob," or 



Referring to this, Mr. Cattell appends: "A portion of 
'Learn's Log Tavern' is said to be still standing in good 
condition as a part of the Pocono Hotel at Upper Tanners- 
ville, owned by C. E. Trach." In another part of his book, 
Mr. Cattell states: "Pogono Point," or "Pokono Point," as 
it was then called, known at present as 
"Big Pocono," was an interesting fea- 
ture in the line of march." Today Mr. 
Trach's place is a modern hostelry, ac- 
commodating forty guests, and with its 
dining service — just enlarged — is draw- 
ing autoists, who appreciate good ser- 
vice, as well as many regular guests. 
Thus it came that we found enough 
inducement to remain here over night, 
in order to take a look around. We en- 
joyed fishing in Pocono creek, which 
runs by the house, took an interesting 
walk to Cranberry Falls, and returned 
to the house for luncheon, fully satis- 
fied that here was a spot destined some 
day to again come into prominence. 
For natural surroundings and the splen- 
did opportunities for development are 
here if transportation facilities by trol- 
ley and utilization of elements for pow- 
er are given a chance to make good. 
In former days this was a hustling community, tanneries, 
etc., giving employment to many. After luncheon we took 
a stroll over to Dr. A. A. Wertman's home, had a chat with 
this booster, inspected some properties nearby, glanced up 
at the railroad station of the Susquehanna nearby, went 
to Learn's store for souvenir post cards, and at two-thirty 



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Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 



burg, where we parted from our local friends and went 
to supper at The Maplehurst. Returning downtown, we 
bought the city papers from that jovial, happy newsdealer 
at the station, Frank Eckert, then we divided the men folks 
among the barber shops of the town, some of us going 
to Watson's, where happy Doc Watson himself performed 
the operation on my face, while some 
of the boys went to Al. Eckert's and to 
Cramer's shops. A few went to Andy's 
East Stroudsburg Candy Kitchen to se- 
cure candy. Some of the folks went 
to see the motion picture shows, while 
our experts bowled at Ransberry's 
Bowling Alley. Two of our party left 
on the midnight train for Scranton, the 
rest remaining at the Lackawanna 
House over night. In the morning we 
had our pictures taken at Knox's Studio, 
opposite McFall & Warne's store, order- 
ed some Kodak pictures developed and 
printed, and ordered an enlargement 
made of beautiful Bushkill Falls. Then 
we went over to the Stroudsburg Wool- 
en Mills to inspect the process of manu- 
facture under Mr. Kitson's guidance, 
and returned to East Stroudsburg in 
time to take the noon train back to New 
York City, a happy, satisfied people, appreciating fully that 
on this trip we had indeed seen "Pennsylvania's Favored 
Region," and had seen it at its best. 

At the station were some of the boosters of the Strouds- 
burgs to see us off. There was Mr Fellows, of the Fellows- 
Huber Silk mill, Louis Rupprecht, Luther S. Hoffman, John 




COLLECTION OF DEER HEADS, ETC., FROM MONROE AND PIKE COUNTIES 
Photographed with the Co-operation of H. P. Van Auken, Taxidermist, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

started our cars on our return journey. Soon we reached 
Bartonsville, where we took the back road to look at Poco- 
no Falls, on Pocono Creek, and in due time arrived at 
Stroudsburg. Here we dismissed our cars, went to Eding- 
er's for ice cream and then took the car to East Strouds- 



N. Gish, cashier of the Monroe County National Bank, Har- 
ry Olldorf, of the Sopher Co.; Ernest Younkins, secretary 
of the Board of Trade, and others, besides several from 
Stroudsburg. We left happy and satisfied that this section 
is a good place for a vacation or for permanent investment. 



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C. V. Smith, Owner of Lakeside Gardens 

IS SPREADING THE FAME OF MONROE CO. AS A GROWER OF ONIONS, CELERY AND LETTUCE 



LAKESIDE GARDENS is a creation about five years 
old, having been converted from a dangerous stretch 
of unclaimed land by extensive ditching. The result 
is apparent to the visitor. In bygone ages, undoubtedly, 
the present gardens were a lake, comprising about twenty- 
five acres, and it is supposed that the beds of peat or 
muck — which surround the present lake of about six 
acres of water — were made up of seaweed or moss growing 
profusely in these waters. The peat varies in depth from 2 
feet to an unknown 
depth of from twelve 
to eighteen inches 
below the surface. 
One finds here the 
fibrous peat still in- 
tact, the small fibers 
still preserved and 
tough, resembling 
very much a dark 
brown sponge. 

From thirty inches 
to over three feet of 
water is found at all 
times under these re- 
claimed garden beds, 
drougth having no 
horrors for Mr. 
Smith, as the plant 
life is fed here by 




Lakeside Gardens, C. V. Smith, Proprietor, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



capillary attraction of the water by the sun. The owner 
of Lakeside Gardens commenced in a small way experiment- 
ing with a number of vegetables to see which was best 
adapted to the conditions of the land. Mr. Smith now spe- 
cializes in celery, onions and lettuce. Other root crops 
are grown to perfection. The Lakeside products are in 
a class by themselves, reaching the largest hotels and re- 
sorts in Monroe and adjoining counties. The Stroudsburgs, 
Scranton, Wilkes Barre, etc., also furnish a good market. 

Lakeside Gardens is 
a beauty spot in the 
Delaware Valley, at 
Oak Grove, Pa., 
where Mr. Smith has 
built a home which 
in itself is one of 
the attractions of 
Monroe County. In- 
tensive farming has 
been found profit- 
able elsewhere in 
Monroe County, but 
Mr. Smith deserves 
the honors of first 
place in successfully 
competing with the 
famous sunny South 
in celery. His ad- 
dress is R. D. No. 1. 



View Work, Commercial Photographs For 
Manufacturers and Merchants, All Art Work 



For Booklets, Catalogs, Etc., in 
Any Quantity by T. J. Knox, East 
Stroudsburg, Pa., Who Guar- 
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Around in the States of Pennsyl- 
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halftone or other printing plates. To 
secure the best results, perfect photographs 
are necessary. The studios of T. J. Knox, at 
East Stroudsburg, Pa., are equipped to handle 
all work promptly, guaranteeing — if necessary 
— the results. This applies equally to resorts. 
all classes of manufacturing plants, reproduc- 
tion of merchandise, interiors and exteriors. 
Life-like panorama pictures made on short 
notice. These studios are p/eparcd to make 
printing plates for one or more color effects. 
In addition to this department, there is every 
facility here for enlargements, water color 
sketches, framing, etc., in artistic manner. It 
is easy to tell a printer what is wanted, if the 
Knox Studios have made the photographic 
and general art work. It saves money besides 
For satisfaction is certain. These studios 
also do high-class portrait work. Fashion draw- 
ings, cover designs, etc., for every purpose are 
made here under the most favorable conditions. 





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A WONG the men of this nation who have made sayings 
■"■ famous, there was Post, of Postuni fame. It was he 
who told the public that "There is a Reason," and the peo- 
ple have come to believe it. There is a reason for the 
large gatherings of summer visitors who come to the Cana- 
densis Amusement Hall to 
forget whatever care may 
have left its impress upon 
their brows in strenuous city 
life. Here may be found a 
modern dance floor, accom- 
modating a goodly number of 
dancers. Here also will be 
found convenient seats for 
their onlooking friends. Here 
also will be found home-made 
ice cream of quality. The sur- 
prise of many will become 
apparent, when they are told 
that J. A. Hensler actually 
averages fifteen to twenty 
gallons of this frozen dainty 
per day, some of it being ta- 
ken away by the summer 
guests to the various houses 
in the vicinity, where they 
spend their vacation. The 
candies are of the best, and 
smokers have every reason 
to feel satisfied with the 
standard brands of cigars 
carried here in season. Mr. 
Hensler is assisted by his 

Son, Albert, who looks after Canadensis Amusement Hall, J. 

the young folks with a knowledge of their needs. Refresh- 
ing soft drinks, etc., are also to be had here. The location 



of the Canadensis Amusement Hall is central, near all the 
stores, while the management is active, as well as courte- 
ous. The Canadensis Amusement Hall is open during the 
day, as well as in the evening, for the accommodation of its 
patrons. For there are many who stroll to this place for 







A. Hensler, Proprietor, Canadensis, Pa. — In the Heart of the Village 

chewing gum, mints, etc., because they feel it is always to 
be had fresh. In the evening the hall is always well lighted. 



The Cliff View House at Ciresco,, Pa., in 
Poconos, Chas. Kolb, Proprietor;, Is Homelike 

|_I OME life in the country, about one-half mile from 
■*• •*■ Cresco station, in the famous Pocono Mountains. Pleas- 
ant surroundings, a large shady piazza, a spacious lawn. Of 
such is the offering at the Cliff View House, under the man- 
agement of Charles Kolb, where about 50 guests can be ac- 
commodated. Rustic paths, water falls within easy walk- 
ing distance and others conveniently reached by short drive, 
three mails a day, New York and Philadelphia papers on 



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V OTJNG men today show the enterprise of their com- 
■*■ munities. Frank G. Brown, owner of the Green Valley 
House, Canadensis, Pa., is a live wire. Occupied with the 
hotel already managed by him, he has made plans for one 
of the finest resorts — with private artificial lake of large 
dimensions — on an area extending over more than 600 
acres. This latest of his enterprises, situated only about 
three miles from Canadensis, will be ready for the season 




The Cliff View House, Canadensis, Pa., Chas. Kolb, Proprietor 

day of publication, facilities for variable amusements, sani- 
tary conveniences, care of automobiles and frequent train 
service to and from Philadelphia and New York City, and 
these all add to make the Cliff View House a desirable 
spot right in the heart of the world-famed Pocono Moun- 
tains. Rates are reasonable. Reservations and full in- 
formation may be had by addressing Chas. Kolb, Cresco, Pa. 



Green Valley House, Canadensis, Frank G. Brown, Proprietor 



of 1916. The Green Valley House is recognized as a stand- 
ard hotel, where summer and winter the traveling public 
may find comfort and modern conveniences, splendid ser- 
vice and moderate charges. It is conveniently situated in 
the heart of the famous Barrett township resort. The cafe 
in connection caters to the traveler and the summer guest 
alike. This season at the Green Valley House will be a busy 
one for the owner, who is making every effort to please. 



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D ORN in Monroe County, Ira E. Bittenbender moved to 
" Belvidere, N. J., with his parents as a boy. At the age of 
sixteen he became an apprentice in the art of monumental 
sculpture in his brother's Belvidere works. Three years 
later, as journeyman, he began to follow his trade in the 
states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West 
Virginia. In March, 1889, he came to Monroe County again, 



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starting in business in Sciota. After nine years he moved to Saylorsburg, 
purchasing land on which he erected a plant and a residence, continuing 
his business on a larger scale. 

In February, 1904, Mr. Bittenbender moved to Stroudsburg, where he 
built the beautiful home and the present plant to meet the demands of 
patronage coming to him from all parts of the county and from neigh- 
boring sections. This modern and largest Granite and Marble Monument 
plant in Monroe County, equipped to build and erect cemetery memorials 
to the satisfaction of critical buyers, also makes a large display of finished 
monuments, etc., for immediate selection. 

Located nearly opposite the Stroudsburg Cemetery, convenient to the 
car line, Ira E. Bittenbender is in a position to show designs already 
in use, from his own drawings, or prepare special sketches. The address 
is 1068 Dreher Avenue, Stroudsburg, Pa. 



THE EFFORT HOW 



UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF FRANK WERNET 
IS A STANDING ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE WEST END OF MONROE 



EXPECTATIONS of the weary traveler or the sportive 
summer guest who comes to Effort, Pa., will never 
be disappointed, as long as Frank Wernet is host at 
the Effort House. There are few who would look for a 
modern hotel in a little hamlet, surrounded by farming 
country and away 
from railroad com- 
munication. But that 
is exactly what the 
traveler finds. Steam 
heat, baths, splendid 
cooking, exce 1 1 e n t 
table service, tele- 
phone connections, 
accommodations for 
the autoist, cafe for 
gentlemen who ap- 
preciate quality, all 
these enable the 
stranger to feel at 
home in the little 
village, located in 
what is by some 
termed "the garden 
spot of Monroe coun- 
ty." The farm, con- 
nected with the 
house, supplies the 
table with the best 
of its products. Mr. 
Wernet has been in 
E ff o r t twenty-two 
years, winning the 
respect of the home 
people as well as the 
strangers. Fifty guests can be accommodated, but the din 



ists for the special Sunday dinners, in addition to the reg- 
ular guests. The hotel is open all the year, the commercial 
traveler finding it a haven of refuge in a prosperous, 
though little known section of Monroe County. This is 
just the spot for rest and recreation. Hunting in season. 




Effort 



House, Frank Wernet, Proprietor 

For rates and reservations address Frank Wernet, proprie- 
ing service in the summer months draws many automobil- tor, Effort House, Effort, Pa. Conveyances meet guests. 



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Echo Lake, Farm and Echo Lake House 



BEAUTY SPOT IN MONROE COUNTY 



CHO LAKE is a beautiful sheet of water in Mon- 
roe County, Pennsylvania, the residue of a vast 
inland sea, years agone, left by the erosion of the 
mountain at the Delaware Water Gap. It is 
said to be the most beautiful of several hundred in East- 
ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and frequently called 
the peer of the world-renowned Lake Luz- 
ern, in Switzerland. It covers approximate- 
ly fifty acres. Rev. Dr. Van Allen named 
it for its remarkable echo. It will re-echo 
from distinct words. The waters of Echo 
Lake are pure and clear as crystal. It has 
neither inlet nor outlet. It is surrounded 
by green, high, sloping banks, has a depth 
of forty to sixty feet, abounds with a vari- 
ety of fish, and was liberally stocked by 
Dr. Van Allen with black bass. White lilies 
bank its shores. 

Echo Lake affords the finest bathing, 
swimming and diving facilities, being safe 
for beginners, as the waters are shallow 
along the shore, gradually growing deeper. 
Safe and reliable boats can be supplied in 
abundance, or guests may bring their own 
boats, shipping them to Echo Lake, Pa. 

The farm is high land and is cut in two 
by a state road, the only mountain pass be- 
tween Boston and Albany on the East, and 
Philadelphia and Washington on the South, 
a historic post road, 200 years old. It is also cut in two 
by the Delaware Valley Railway. The state road, along the 
full length of the farm, is lined with mature sugar maple 
trees, nearly fifty years old, all planted — according to the 



Echo Lake House is beautifully situated, and is per- 
haps the oldest house in this region, growing from a little 
farm house, of fifty years ago, to its present size. It is filled 
each season to its utmost capacity. A hotel accommodating 
five hundred guests could be filled just as readily. The 
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report of the state department of forestry — by the Rev. 
Dr. Van Allen. Building lots, laid out on the farm along 
the road easily find interested purchasers in the cities. 



Echo Lake House, Echo Lake, Pa. 

station and the lake, two minutes walk from the former 
and three from the latter. Its altitude brings it close to 
the Poconos which can be seen from the house twenty- 
five miles westward. And as one turns, the thoughts wan- 
der to Port Jervis, situ- 
J : ~~ j~_y;77 a.l&A thirty-five miles 

Eastward. Never a hint 
of malaria is known here. 
Drinking water from a 
driven well 45 feet deep. 
Echo Lake has been 
under the same manage- 
ment for fifty years, but 
has desirable modern im- 
provements. The table 
is largely supplied from 
the farm, the viands be- 
ing always fresh, crisp 
and toothsome. The house 
and lawn are well shaded; 
ample porches always pro- 
vide cool retreat. An 
acetylene plant furnishes 
light throughout. The 
railroad facilities are ex- 
cellent, there being five 
trains daily each way. 
From New York it is two and one half hours, via the Lacka- 
wanna Railroad, connecting with the Delaware Valley Rail- 
way at East Stroudsburg. The Pennsylvania Railroad also 



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connects there. Daily papers from the larger cities come 
on the day of publication. Local and Long Distance tele- 
phone service on premises, and connection with the West- 
ern Union Telegraph Company at any moment, day or 
night, makes the city man feel relieved. Churches are 
near, and a skilled physician is quickly reached. 

Horses, carriages 
and automobiles can 
be secured on short 
notice and at rea- 
sonable rates. The 
house caters t o 
guests who are glad 
to return from year 
to year and bring 
others with them, 
making a home gath- 
ering of a gladsome 
family. The lake is 
private property, is 
taxed same as land, 
and can, therefore, 
be controlled same 
as land. The win- 
ter months will some 
day bring a return 
from the ice on the 

lake, estimated at Beauti 

$100,000, per season, clear of expense. At present this 
harvest returns unto itself, in the form of water in spring, 
a total waste. There is, however, good skating enjoyed 
on this splendid ice, gleaming like diamonds on the dark- 
est day, while the season is on. And many there are who 
visit this region on this account in the winter months, if 
only for the day. 

In season, prompt and efficient mail service at the U. S. 
Post Office, which is located right in the house, is a con- 
venience greatly appreciated by guests. 

The map showing the distance between the lake and 
the Delaware Valley Railway station is correct. It gives 

at first glance the 
right location of the 
house, which is almost 
the center of the two. 
The beautiful shade 
trees fronting on the 
lots set aside for cot- 
tages offer at once an 
attraction, usually pos- 
sible after years of 
ownership, but here 
provided through the 
foresight of the pres- 
ent owner who plant- 
ed the young trees 
some fifty years ago. 
The proximity of the 
lake, however, is the 
chief attraction for 
all. Echo Lake station 
gives to every owner 
the benefit of prompt 
Fishing and Hunting in Season deliveries for special 

occasions, while the leading merchants of both the Strouds- 
burgs look after patrons of their stores by regular delivery 
service. Life in the country is at its best in Monroe Coun- 
ty. At Echo Lake it leaves nothing to be desired. Many 
of the regular guests walk to other points of interest from 
this center of the Delaware Valley, some going as far as 
liushkill or Marshall's Creek between meals. Automobile 



owners find a never ending variety of trips for their out- 
ings from this spot, returning the same night for dinner. 
One could go on indefinitely in describing the beauties 
of this section and the attractions of Echo Lake. There is 
a real picnic ground on the farm, overlooking the lake, and 
the regular guests make the most of their opportunities in 




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ful Echo Lake, in Monroe County 
enjoying this spot. There are remarkable farming sections 
within walking distance or farther away that appeal to the 
man who wants to know things. There are falls and lakes 
near and far. There is the Delaware River not far away. 
The West End of Monroe County is near enough to invite 
an inspection of its many beauties during an extended stay. 
Here, too, may be 
found a chance to rise 
early and see the sun 
rise in all of Old Sol's 
majestic beauty. 

It is a well known 
fact that Echo Lake 
appeals to all who live 
in Monroe County. 
Other resort owners 
make it a point to call 
mity to their own 
attention to its proxi 
places, because it of- 
fers to the sightseer 
an opportunity to fully 
appreciate the scenery 
of the county. Auto- 
mobile parties make 
it a point to see this 
spot, even on a thru 
trip. There is an ever 
increasing number of 
outsiders who have 
learned to know the 
way and who come 
again and again, re- 
joicing in the knowl- 
edge that here may be 
found comfort and 
convenience. 

Reservations for the 
summer season can be 
made, by addressing 
Rev. C. E. Van Allen. 
D. D., Echo Lake, Pa. 




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THROUGH THE DELAWARE VALLEY 



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ONROE TO PU 



AN INTERESTING PEN PICTURE OF A REGION FAVORED BY NATURE 
By Rev. Chas. E. Van Allen, A. M., D. D. 



HE name "Delaware Valley" in present use and 
applied to designate a wellknown section in "The 
Bells of Monroe" is a misnomer, or to say the least, 
misleading. Strangers, into whose hands many 



copies of this edition will doubtless fall, would naturally 

think the region thus designated 

was a "lowland" between the 
mountains, or a "vale" between 
the hills, or as a low, miasmatic, 
malarious, disease-breeding re- 
gion, whereas the facts are just 
the reverse. 

The "Bells of Monroe County" 
will doubtless reach thousands 
of pleasure seekers and travelers 

who have never seen this region, and perhaps never will 
if they get such an impression of it, and this writing is to 
disabuse the minds of all by the truth of the 
statement concerning the place. The hand 
of the Maker seems to have been lavish of 
his beauty in the construction of the tower- 
ing mountains and sloping hills and waving 
woodlands. Said one to the writer: "There 
is beauty everywhere you look." 

The region denominated the "Delaware 
Valley" in the "Bells of Monroe" and other 
publications, is that bounded by Strouds- 
burg on the West; by Bushkill on the East; 
by the Delaware River and Blue Mountains 
on the South, and by the "back woods" on 
the North. It is six or seven miles wide 
and some thirteen or more miles long, and 
covers about eighty square miles of coun- 
try as wild and mountainous, as pictures- 
que and beautiful, as diversified and varied, 
as high and healthful, as free from malaria 
and contagion as God ever made. It con- 
tains mountains and woodlands, slopes and forests as deep 
dense and dark as midnight. It has acres and acres of the 

finest alluvial soil and glac- 



"What's in a name ? That, which we call a rose. 
By any other name would smell as sweet; 
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, 
Retain that dear perfection which he owes, 
Without that title;-Romeo, doff thy name; 
And for that name, which is no part of thee, 
Take all myself." 

— Shakespeare:-"Romeo and Juliet.' 




Hon. E. F. Peters 
Peters House, Bushkill, Pa. 



ial deposits rich in historic 
lore. 

The region along the Dela- 
ware River from Water Gap 
to Bushkill might properly be 
called Delaware Valley, be- 
tween the Blue Ridge and 
Strunk Hill (locally known). 

But the region of historic 
note traversed by the State 
Road from Bushkill to East 
Stroudsburg — a part of the 
road from Boston and Albany 
on the East, to Easton, Phila- 
delphia and Washington on 
the West — is the only moun- 
tainous pass between these 
cities and has been traversed 
for several hundred years. 



When postal roads first began to be established, this 
was one of the oldest. When local names began to be 
fixed, this was one of the first to be named Coolbaugh, and 
when post offices first began to be established, the Cool- 
baugh Post Office was one of the first and this was the 
name first affixed to this region, 
a hundred years ago or more. 

This region was called Cool- 
baugh for fifty or sixty or more 
years and the Post Office was 
named after the Coolbaughs. Only 
about fifteen or twenty years ago 
was it called anything else. 

Then a man by the name of 
Friedburgh got the idea of build- 
ing a railroad through this region from East Stroudsburg 
to Bushkill. He got a charter and made a show of building 
a railroad but failed after grading a part of 
it and was sold out by the sheriff. Then it 
was patched up again and again, sold out by 
the sheriff and the name changed to Dela- 
ware Valley Railway, by which name it is 
now known, and the region has gotten its 
name, Delaware Valley, largely from this. 

Only a few years ago when Rural Free 
Delivery of mail was popular, by political 
power, a mail route was established from 
Experiment Mills, now changed to North 
Water Gap, up through this region running 
along the railroad for eight miles to Bush- 
kill, and then back to Experiment Mills, or 
North Water Gap, and that route was called 
North Water Gap Route No. 2. 

When the mail route was established and 
another name given to the region, as fool- 
ish as useless — North Water Gap — all the 
Re pro?rieio E rEchoL e ak'e A House 1 - D - way to Bushkill, Dr. Van AHen had the 
post office established, or re-established and the U. S. 
Government called it Echo Lake, after a description of the 
country, considering it the 
most appropriate that could 
be used. The political or 
geographical name is Middle 
Smithfield. Thus we have 
five names or appellations 
given to this region at differ- 
ent times, viz., Coolbaugh, 
Middle Smithfield, North Wa- 
ter Gap, Delaware Valley and 
Echo Lake. 

The name Coolbaugh was 
given after the name of the 
first residents and might easi- 
ly have been retained. But 
they are about all gone, ex- 
cept the Hon. M. F. Cool- 
baugh of Stroudsburg and the 
youngest daughter of John V. 
Coolbaugh, Mary Emma Cool- 





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M. Depue Turn 
Proprietor Turn Villa, Pa. 



baugh Van Allen. It is supposed that ages ago there was 
a large inland sea covering thousands and thousands of 
acres north and east of the Blue Mountains with the Dela- 
ware River, the Bushkill Creek, the Brodhead's Creek, 
at East Stroudsburg, and the McMichaels Creek, all pour- 
ing their flood of waters into this vast sea. 

Ages ago the erosion of the Blue Mountains took place 
at the Water Gap and gradually this vast sea ran to the 
ocean and left that which we find now a beautiful country, 
with streams and rivers running through it and Echo Lake 
a vestige of this vast sea remaining high upon its moun- 
tains. Echo Lake is so-called from its distinct re-echos of 
four syllables. Once when a demonstration of its echo 
was given a party, they would not believe but that some 
man was on the banks of the Lake and he himself making 
the echo. 

This then might well be called Echo Lake region, a 
name as lasting as the hills. The Delaware Valley, as it 
is commonly known, is celebrated first, for its access. It 
has an acknowledged stretch of fifty miles almost straight 
as a line through a wild and mountainous country of the 



can be distinctly seen, and seems almost on a level. It is 
a stretch of fifty miles over which the breezes blow, and 
in this wind is health and happiness and always has been 
to all the inhabitants. 

Diogenes went about the city of Greece carrying a 
lighted lantern and upon being asked why he carried his 
lantern lighted in the day time, he replied: "I wanted to 
find an honest man." The first settlers of this country 
were honest men, and honesty made them men. They 
were Democrats of the Andrew Jackson following without 
the stubbornness and self conceit. The earliest settlers 
were cotemporary with him and they all imbibed his prin- 
ciples which lasts to this day — several generations. But 
this writing goes back about one hundred years when the 
writer was familiar with them and their lives and writes 
of things known. 

This country was rich in men rather than money and 
has borne her full share. I speak of them first politically: 

Judge Moses Coolbaugh, son of John Coolbaugh, Sr., 
was one of the first settlers and one of her repsesentative 
men. His son, William F. Coolbaugh, was a Stephen S. 




On the Delaware River, Near Btishkill, Pa. Taken at Riverside Hotel 



best road in the United States. No macadam or asphalt 
can be made better, not to say as well. 

In the days of bicycling, riders by the hundreds would 
come out of New York by the Erie Railroad and take a spin 
on this road to Stroudsburg or Water Gap and then take 
the Lackawanna back to New York; and the century runs 
of Philadelphia Wheelmen are remembered, though twenty 
years have passed. Fred T. Moore, Louis Graupe, and other 
Philadelphians used to start their run at Riverside above 
Bushkill. 

And now, in the days of automobiling, when the weath- 
er is fine in summer, automobiles by the hundreds throng 
this road for a test of tire. The road responds to the 
wheels of the automobiles as do not the roads of asphalt 
or macadam. Automobiles can tell this road from any 
other the moment they strike it. Long before there were 
any race tracks made in the county or elsewhere this road, 
now a State Road, right in front of the Echo Lake House 
was used as a race track. 

There has never been a contagion or infection or a 
hint of malaria or miasma in its region. Pocono Summit 



Douglass Democrat. Another of his sons, Hon. M. F. Cool- 
baugh, still living, is also a Democrat. His brother-in- 
law, Hon. William Overfield, was of the same stripe. He 
raised a large family of sons and daughters, all honored 
and highly respected in their day and generation. 

Jacob Shoemaker was another of the first dwellers in 
this region. He, too, had a large and influential family. 
He kept a store at what is still called Shoemaker's. His 
oldest son, Charles Shoemaker, though not of the same 
family in politics, was one of its smartest and brightest of 
men. His youngest son, Emanuel Shoemaker, kept his 
store for a number of years and at length went to Pen 
Argyl. Another of his sons, Hon. Andrew J. Shoemaker, a 
man of affairs, was a remarkable public speaker and was 
elected to the State Legislature as an independent candi- 
date by a large majority over the Hon. James Place, the 
regular nominee, something very unusual. He was a con- 
spicuous figure in the Legislature and attracted unusual 
attention wherever he spoke on any measure. 

The Hon. James Place, mentioned above, was a sterling 
Democrat. His son, Newton Place, was elected to the 



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State Legislature; so was a brother, Frank E. Place. Later 
Hon. Harvey Huffman was elected from this district. Sen- 
ator Huffman is now a member of the firm of Eilenberger 
& Huffman, of Stroudsburg. 

Such a line of worthy men is not found in every dis- 
trict of this size and we might well be proud of their 
names. 

The men of the ministry included: Rev. Dr. J. Anson 
Butty, of Drew Theological Seminary, who was born and 
raised here. The Rev. Dr. Theophilus Heilig, a strong 
and patriarchal figure of the 
Lutheran Church, who only 
recently left his charge in 
this section. Rev. John H. 
Brown, still living; Rev. 
George Michael, Rev. Trei- 
ble, Rev. Godfrey Transue, 
Rev. Price; Rev. Alvin 
Blackwell, still living; and 
Wm. P. Peters, a missionary 
of the American Sunday 
School Union. 

The medical men includ- 
ed: Dr. Thomas Grattan. 
and his son, Dr. Matthew 
George Grattan, Dr. Philip 
M. Bush, and his two sons, 
Dr. Lewis Bush, and Dr. 
Horace Bush, the latter still 
living; Dr. Daniel Brown, 

. __ T . _ _ ... ,. Joseph C. Kennedy, Proprietor 

and Dr. Lewis B. Smith, the Bushkill inn, Bushkin, Pa. 

latter also still living. Many others probably deserve men- 
tion in all professions and callings. But the list would 
require more space and time than has been allotted. 

Of the laity, there were: John Malvin, John Turn, Sr., 
Jeremy Mackey, and Jacob Miller, all prior to the writer's 
time. John V. Coolbaugh, George Peters, Sr., George La 
Bar, Levi Huffman, Frank H. Smith, John Turn, Samuel 
Bush, George W. Peters. The latter is still among the 
living, and of the present day there are also Edwin Bush, 
Depue Turn, and John Q. 
Strunk. 

During the past 50 years 
not only have the fathers 
all passed on to the other 
shore and the houses all 
changed inhabitants but 
the manners and customs 
of the people have taken on 
new color. 

The late Case F. Smith 
and his noble wife, Jane 
Peters Smith, instituted 
the custom of bringing the 
people — a free ride — to the 
Church and that helped 
give the churchward move- 
ment to the people. 

People began to come to 
this region from the city 



Case F. Smith added to the house of his father until 
the present popular Oak Grove House is the result. Depue 
Turn made an attractive "Villa" of his little home. Arthur 
Shinn adorned the border of Echo Lake with a row of 
houses. A stately mansion was built on the mountains 
overlooking Echo Lake. Marshall's Falls House was 
greatly enlarged. Echo Valley home was made into a 
large boarding house. Dr. Davidson's school and boarding 
house were enlarged. The Mountain Lake House has 



come into existence. The 




J. H. Cook, Proprietor Riverside 
Hotel, Bushkill, Pa. 



Peters House has been en- 
larged. The Bushkill Inn, 
now under the management 
of Joseph C. Kennedy, is 
the former Maple Grove 
House, remodeled. Just 
above Bushkill, the River- 
side, to be under the per- 
sonal direction of the own- 
er, J. H. Cook, this year, 
will again draw the lovers 
of the river, called the Del- 
aware, as it did years ago 
under the management of 
Martin L. Bach and Mrs. 
Bach. The Bachs have 
gone down to East Strouds- 
burg, where they run the 
house on the automobile 
gateway to the Delaware 
Valley, The Maplehurst. 
Cressmont Cottage was 




and spend the summer and 



Martin L. Bach 



Who Direct Affairs at The Maplehurst, East Stroudsburg 



built, Oak Ridge House was added, Winona House was 
erected; Mountain View House was built as a Sanitarium, 
but is now a popular resort. And it came to pass that 
nearly every house, cottage and hamlet throughout the 
whole region took boarders, some remaining, others pass- 
ing into history. 

It has become a veritable country city, where city 
people spend their summers in the country. This change 
is as great, if not greater than any of the other changes 

that have come over the 
country. All the houses 
full and each has as much 
as they can do. And there 
are greater changes and 
possibilities still for the 
future. 

People come and go, gen- 
erations rise and fall. We 
who live today are gone to- 
morrow, but the earth abid- 
eth, the process of nature 
remains the same. 

There goes to waste, on 
the bosom of Echo Lake, 
every spring time $100,000. 
100,000 tons of ice are froz- 
en each winter, off of which 
$100,000 might be conserv- 
ed but, all goes back to 
waste. The time is coming 



Mrs. Martin L. Bach 



they got the trend churchward and have kept it for years, 
and no other communicants went to church like this; 
Religion was easy; There was no temptation; Godliness 
and happiness prevailed. 

But this too changed. The country, instead of merely 
being the "Garden of the Gods," became the "Godly Gar- 
den of city people in summer." The farmers, for all were 
farmers, continuing their farming, began to keep city 
boarders, which proved lucrative. 



when this vast natural revenue will be conserved and will 
be consumed by the vast influx of people in the region, 
just as other resources of the Delaware Valley Region 
are being husbanded for the future. Additional transpor- 
tation facilities are promised and destined to bring Port 
Jervis, N. Y., into close communication with this section 
and the Stroudsburgs, the natural commercial center of 
Monroe Co. Thus the Delaware Valley region will prob- 
ably become a by-word for this section of Pennsylvania. 



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Peters House, Bushkill, Pa.— Old Grist Mill at Extreme Right of Bridge 



THE PET] 



HOUSE, AT BUSHKILL, PA. 



WITH EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE AND MANY ATTRACTIONS DRAWS 
THOUSANDS ANNUALLY FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE BOUND 



H" [STORY has spoiled nothing of the beauty and 
character of the resort, now known as the Peters, 
House, Bushkill, Pa., in the county of Pike, just 
across the border line from Monroe. As early as 
1750, Manuel Gonzales — an ancestor of the Peters family — 
resided on the premises, running a Public House. Gon- 
zales had seven daughters, one of which — Elizabeth — -was 
stolen from the premises by the Indians. Henry Peters, 
grandfather of the present owners, conducted the house 
from 1812 to 1850; Peter, their father, until 1868. Since 
then it has been owned by Mrs. E. E. Peters and her sons, 
Hon. E. F. Peters and Harry Peters. 

The premises were for a long time popular as a Road- 
house, where the horses of 
the Coach Line, connecting 
Philadelphia and Port Jer- 
vis, N. Y., were relayed. 
The Log Cabin of those 
early days had as a sign a 
little "Brown Jug," hung 
i.'om the attic. 

Located on the banks of 
the Bushkill Creek, one-half 
mile from the Delaware 
River, with the Bushkill 
Falls, the "Niagara of Penn- 
sylvania," only a short walk 
away, The Peters House 
today stands out prominent- 
ly as one of the foremost 
resorts of the territory, of 
which the Stroudsburgs form a 

house, together with the Annex, open to the public for the 
first time this year under the same management as the 
Peters House, accommodates one hundred and fifty 
guests. It is well equipped with all the modern conven- 
viences, electric lights, bells, telephone, etc., hot and cold 
water and baths on all floors. Excellent water is supplied 
by gravity from a mountain spring. 

The surrounding country needs no recommendation, as 
its reputation is far-reaching for beautiful streams, with 
good bass and trout fishing, excellent roads which afford 



good walks and fine drives, while a trout stream on the 



property is always — in season — a pleasure ground for 
the free use of guests. An auto garage is conducted in 
connection with the Peters House, where reasonable 
charges prevail. 

A large farm, connected with the house, supplies the 
table with vegetables, milk and cream, and other desirable 
products. The rates for accommodation range from $2.00 
per day, or $10.00 to $12.00 per week and upwards, each 
person. Large porches, splendid grounds, spacious dining 
and sitting rooms, etc., make the house attractive for con- 
tinued stay. 

The Peters House is located near the Delaware Valley 
Railway station, where all trains connect with all the 

principal lines to and from 
New York City, via the 
D„ L. & W. Railroad, and 
to and from Philadelphia, 
via the Belvidere Division 
of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road. The ride from the 
East Stroudsbur g — o r 
Stroudsburg, as it is fre- 
quently called — station of 
the Delaware, Lackawanna 
& Western, where all 
trains of all roads center, 
is only thirteen miles. 
Baggage should be checked 
right through to Bushkill 
from any starting point. In 
Peters House Annex, Opposite Main Building j ue height of the season, 

natural center. The the Parlor Car service from New York City goes through 
to Bushkill on certain trains. 

Nearby points of interest are the Delaware River, % 
mile; Bushkill Falls, 2 miles; Forest Park, 4 miles; 
Winona Falls, 5 miles; Echo Lake, 5 miles; Marshall's 
Falls, 7 miles; Transue's Knob, 8 miles; Delaware Water 
Gap, 13 miles; Port Jervis, 29 miles, an excellent drive; 
Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg, 13 miles; Dingman's 
Ferry, 13 miles; Dingman's High Falls, 13 miles; Silver 
Thread, 13 miles; Indian Ladder, 10 miles; Adam's Falls, 
15 miles; Raymondskill Falls, 18 miles; Milford, 21 miles; 
Sawkill Falls, 21 miles, and many other interesting spots. 




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BUSHKILL INN WITH MODERN FACILITI 

CATERS TO THOSE WHO APPRECIATE QUALITY AND SERVICE, AT BUSHKILL, PA. 



JOSEPH C. KENNEDY assumed the management of 
Bushkill Inn, then known as the Maple Grove Hotel, in 
1912. Since then the house has been completely reno- 
vated, with the added facilities of running water and 
private baths affording desir- 
able convenience. Dining ser- 
vice may be had on the Ameri- 
can plan or a la carte, both 
up to the high Kennedy stan- 
dard. Eight hundred feet of 
shaded veranda space gives 
the hotel an ideally restful ap- 
pearance, with accommodations 
for fifty guests. All vegetables, 
eggs, butter, cream, milk, fruit 
and poultry are supplied from 
the Bushkill Inn farm. 

The water is pure and 
sparkling, the service uniform- 
ly courteous, the liquid re- 
freshments in the cafe and 
the grill service in connection 
of a character to give satisfac- 
tion to people of discriminating 
taste. The location of Bush- 
kill Inn, on the state road 
from the Stroudsburgs to Port 
Jervis, makes the house con- 
venient for auto parties. 
Churches, post office, stores, 
physician, and the Bushkill 
railroad station of the Dela- 
ware Valley Railway, are only 
five minutes' walk from the hotel. Baggage should be 
checked through to Bushkill. Rates range from $2.50 to 



$3.00 per day; $14.00 to $21.00 per week. The house is an 
official Blue Book, A. A. A., Touring Club of America, and 
American Protective Association hotel. 

The house is open all the year. Rooms may be had 




single or en suite. Bushkill Inn is very popular and is 
much sought after by tourists and permanent guests. 



OUNTAIN VI] 



HOW 



5HKILJL PA. 



A DELIGHTFUL SUMMER RESORT IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY 



TWENTY-FIVE years ago, on April 1, 1890, the Mountain 
View House was established. This favorite resort is 
today under the same management, having undergone 
improvements since to meet the requirements of an in- 
creasing patronage. It is situated on the crest of a knoll 




Mountain View House. Mrs. Jacob Place, Proprietress 

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commanding an extensive and interesting view of the gent- 
ly rolling mountains of Pike County and Monroe, and the 
peaceful fertile valleys between. Nearby flows the far- 
famed Delaware River. The grounds are well kept, pictur- 
esque and abundantly shaded. Roomy verandas afford 
cool and pleasant retreats. The house 
is supplied with pure spring water. 
Luscious fruit, savory vegetables, rich 
milk, cream, and fresh eggs, are ob- 
tained from the farm belonging to the 
estate. Driving is a favorite recrea- 
tion in this section. Among the de- 
lightful walks must be counted that 
leading to the beautiful Bushkill Falls. 
For the accommodation of motor- 
ists a garage is connected with Moun- 
tain View House. The table service 
is of that home-like character, at once 
pleasing and satisfying. Rates are 
reasonable. Inquires regarding same 
and reservations should be addressed 
to Mrs. Jacob Place, Bushkill, Pike 
County, Pa. Baggage should be check- 
ed through direct to Bushkill, where 
conveyances will meet guests upon re- 
quest. The Delaware Valley Railway 
station is only ten minutes' walk from 
the house, the village of Bushkill be- 
ing still nearer. From New York, the 
D., L. & W. trains, and from Philadel- 
phia, the Pennsylvania Railroad make 
prompt connections at East Strouds- 
burg. Telephone service to all points. 
Delightful fishing, boating and bathing 
in the Delaware River which is near. 



Marshall's Falls House and Bungalows 



AT MARSHALL'S CREEK, PA., AN IDEAL RESORT 



THIRTY-EIGHT years ago Marshall's Falls House was 
started by E. D. Huffman, who conducted it until his 
son, Norman Huffman, assumed the management eight 
years ago. Losing none of its simple roadside features, 
when the house was greatly enlarged and completely mod- 
ernized in 1914, Marshall's Falls House sprang into greater 
popularity with these changes. They included a large, new 
and spacious dining room, with a seating capacity of 140, 
and many rooms en suite with baths. 

Lake Marshall, being but 100 yards away from the 
house, proves an attraction and exclusive feature for the 
hotel. Fishing and boating of the finest may be had, while 



close proximity to Marshall's Falls House, where meals 
can be secured under the same advantageous management 
which governs the hotel. These bungalows have added 
glories to the success attained by Mr. Huffman. 

All necessities of life, including ice, may be had at 
the doors of the bungalows at short notice. The cottages 
are furnished completely, except silver and linen. They 
are also supplied with running spring water. Situated on 
the border of the lake, a mile in length, reasonably distant 
from each other, light and ventilation is a valuable asset 
of these dainty little summer homes, in each of which 
long distance telephone connection may be had cheaply 




Marshall's Falls House, Norman Huffman, Manager, Marshall's Creek, Pa. Modern Country Store, Soda Fountain, etc., Opposite Hotel 



the motorist — taking his spin over the best motoring road- 
ways in "Pennsylvania's Favored Region" — will find excel- 
lent accommodations here for himself and car. Marshall's 
Falls House now accommodates 100 guests, at rates rang- 
ing from $12.00 to $21.00 per week. The atmosphere is 
remarkably dry and invigorating, the management courte- 
ous and considerate of the requirements of the guests. The 
house is open all the year. 

The charm of bungalow life among the mountainous 
sections of Monroe County is at its best at Marshall's 
Creek, popularly designated as the little hamlet of serene 
beauty and quiet refinement in the Delaware Valley region. 
Secluded from the main thoroughfare, nestled here and 
there with privacy and restfulness assured, they are in 



on application. Occupants of these bungalows or cottages 
are accorded the privilege of having their own boats on the 
lake, or they may hire them by the season. 

Marshall's Creek, Pa., is a station on the Delaware Val- 
ley Railway, only twelve minutes ride from the East 
Stroudsburg (or Stroudsburg) station of the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western Railroad, where all trains, includ- 
ing those of the Pennsylvania, center. The walk to the 
hotel and bungalows is delightful and short, none being 
farther away than ten minutes from the Marshall's Creek 
station. Those desiring it may have carriages to meet 
them. Baggage should be checked through to Marshall's 
Creek. Applications for rooms, etc. may be sent to Norman 
Huffman, Prop., Marshall's Falls House, East Stroudsburg. 



E. D. HUFFMAN & SONS, MARSHALL'S CREEK, PA. 

CONDUCT A MODERN STORE, OF INTEREST TO VISITORS 



OPPOSITE the hotel, at Marshall's Creek, is the general 
store run by E. D. Huffman & Sons, who carry a good 
stock of everything usually found in a first class country 
store. Dealers in everything one may wish to sell and 
selling everything one may need, this firm stands unique in 
its character and relationship to the cottagers found here 
in ever increasing numbers year after year. An up-to-date 
soda fountain and ice cream parlor, where a cooling drink 
or a refreshing dish may be enjoyed as well as on the large 



porches, make the other side of the street, as it were, a 
vicinity of joyful idlers, away from city life. 

Besides handling dry goods, groceries, country produce, 
boots, shoes, fine confectionery, feed, flour, buckwheat flour, 
meal and all kinds of grain, this firm is an extensive ship- 
per of railroad ties, mine ties, mine props, sawed lumber, 
laths and wood. The shipping station is Marshall's Creek, 
Pa., with post office address at East Stroudsburg, Pa. For 
this spot the famous walker, Edward Marshall, made history. 



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The Modem Resort— Oak Grove House 



IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY 



DERIVING its name from natural surroundings, the 
Oak Grove House is in every way well suited to 
delight the summer guest. Started forty years ago 
by a pioneer in the resort business in the Delaware Val- 
ley, the late Case Smith, it is 
today — under the management 
and ownership of E. K. Wyclc- 
off, who purchased the prop- 
erty in 1913 — in every sense 
up-to-date. Aside from many 
interior improvements, a mod- 
ern sewage disposal plant 
has been installed. The house 
accommodates 125 guests, at 
rates ranging from $10.00 to 
$15.00 per week. Delaware 
Valley trains stop at entrance 
to grounds. Boating and fish- 
ing in front of house, with ele- 
gant drives to surrounding 
country, pool and billiards, 
tennis, croquet, extensive shad- 
ed grounds, large colonial 
piazzas, fine spring water with 
improved cooling system for 
drinKing, make a stay here 
agreeable. Fresh vegetables, 
milk, eggs and fruit, are a fea- 
ture. Livery is convenient to 
the house. Country comforts 
and city conveniences combine 
to make a vacation at Oak 
Grove delightful. Reached 

from all points on the D., L. &. W. Railroad, as well as 
Pennsylvania, via the East Stroudsburg station, where the 



Delaware Valley trains connect, baggage should be 
checked through to Oak Grove station. Supplies can be 
quickly had by amateur photographers, who will find sub- 
jects innumerable within easy walking distance of the 




Oak Grove House, Oak Grove, Pa.; Mail Address, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

house. All requests for reservations should be addressed 
to E. K. Wyckoff, Proprietor, East Stroudsburg, Penna. 



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The Popular Mountain Lake House 



NEAR MARSHALL'S CREEK, PA. 



SITUATED high above sea level, and overlooking the 
beautiful Lake Marshall, only about 100 yards distant 
from the house, the Mountain Lake House, at Mar- 
shall's Creek, Pa., had a very successful season under the 




Mountain Lake House, Near Marshall's Creek, 
new management of Farley Pipher, last season. The 
house is nicely furnished, its light rooms accommodating 



30 guests. Butter, eggs, vegetables, etc., are supplied 
from the farm in connection with the house. Water 
comes from a good spring on the farm. Auto and car- 
riage livery, with competent drivers, and saddle horse 
service at any time. Boating and 
bathing may be enjoyed by the pa- 
trons of the house in the picturesque 
Lake Marshall. Good fishing in the 
same body of water, as well as in 
the natural home of the trout, Mar- 
shall's Creek, draws many lovers of 
this sport. The surroundings are 
beautiful, the house and porches 
roomy, the village near, the mail 
service prompt, and the railroad ser- 
vice direct to Marshall's Creek, on 
the Delaware Valley Railroad, from 
any point on the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna and Western, as well as the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, via East 
Stroudsburg. Local and Long Dis- 
tance telephone connections, and 
everything else necessary to insure 
comfort, pleasure and afford con- 
venience for the guests. Hot and 
cold water, baths, etc., a good dining 
room service and reasonable rates. 
Splendid driving on good roads is 
assured. All inquiries should be ad- 
dressed to Farley Pipher, Proprietor, 
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Mountain Lake 
House is only limited in capacity. 
The service will, however, be found 
agreeable and considerate of the needs of each guest. 
It is within easy walking distance of the railway station. 



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LAWN comforts, with all appurtenances; surroundings of 
hills and valleys affording beautiful views ; boating and 
bathing at Echo Lake, na- 
ture's beauty spot; easy ac- 
cess by rail from points on 
the Delaware, Lackawanna 
& Western Railroad, as 
well as the Pennsylvania 
lines; quiet comfort; splen- 
did service; a good table — 
with supplies from a well- 
kept farm ; these are some 
of the attractions that bring 
to Turn Villa a satisfied 
patronage year after year. 
Opened in 1883, with a 
capacity for thirty guests, 
the house today — under the 
same management — can ac- 
commodate 100 guests. 
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including several cottages built near the main house; with 
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Walk at Turn Villa — In the Delaware Valley 

in the cottages; with the station of the Delaware Valley 
Railway on the grounds; with all these Turn Villa retains 

the refined character of a 
quiet country home, open to 
summer guests. The house 
is open from June 1 until 
the end of September. 

Situated in the eastern 
part of Pennsylvania, hav- 
ing a frontage on the main 
auto road leading from Del- 
aware Water Gap to Port 
Jervis, N. Y., only nine 
miles north of the Gap, the 
same distance East of the 
Stroudsburgs, and three 
miles Southwest of Bush- 
kill, Turn Villa has an at- 
tractive location among the 
hills of Monroe County. At 
its own Echo Lake landing, 
guests at reasonable weekly 
affords a splendid pastime. 
Rates range from 
$9.00 to $14.00 per 
week. The connections 
at East Stroudsburg, 
on arrival from New 
York or Philadelphia, 
with the Delaware Val- 
ley Railway are prompt 
and conveniently made. 
The Mountain Specials 
carry through parlor 
cars, stopping at Turn 
Villa. Baggage should 
be checked through. 
Express may be ad- 
dressed Turn Villa. 
East Stroudsburg, Pa.; 
telegrams to Turn 
Villa, Stroudsburg, Pa. 
For accommodations, 
inquiries should be sent 
to M. D. Turn, Proprie- 
tor, North Water Gap, 
Pa., R. F. D. No. 2. 

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AUTIFUL MAPLEHU 



M. L. BACH FURNISHES HOME COMFORTS AND RESORT PLEASURES TO THOUSANDS 
ANNUALLY AT EAST STROUDSBURG, THE GATEWAY TO RECREATION 



DID you ever view the grand- 
eur of the Creator's most 
artistic handiwork, Sun- 
set, at its hest? Did you ever 
drink at this fountain of inspira- 
tion to your heart's content? If 
you did, you must have spent a 
little of your time of life at 
Maplehurst, where at the west 
end of the grounds of this ideal 
spot in Pennsylvania's favored 
region you can often see Old Sol 
winking at you in his array of 
gorgeous colors. Bring out a 
chair onto the spacious lawns 
and view at leisure the marvel- 
ous scenery, painted on the hori- 
zon in multiples of colors and 
glorious gold, watch it merge 
from contrast to contrast of red 
and green, watch it sink into 
oblivion under the gray and the 
deep tones of slate, and then 
dream on in your easy chair of 
the wonders of this world. 

Would this rest your tired 
body, would it relieve your weary 

brain? Try it as the remedy for ... 

fatigue from the labors in the lew 

city. Use it as a tonic for the run-down system. And feed 
at the tables of plenty, supplied from the modern farm on 
the grounds and from the resources of the nation's best 
supply depots of necessities and delicacies. You will agree 
with others that the whole is a feast, fit for the gods, calcu- 
lated to replenish the depleted sources of strength and 





View of the Main Buildings and Grounds from the Highway 

ambition, making your stay not only a pleasure of the 
moment, but a source of revenue of physical and mental 
energy for another year to come. And if you feel like 
thousands of enthusiasts, come back now and then, at any 
time of the year, motoring or by rail, and drink again at 
this fountain of joy and eat of the foods in plenty. 

Maplehurst is no less a pleasure ground for the young, 
because it is an ideal family resort. Situated, as it is, in 
the foreground of a highly cultivated 100-acre farm, within 
walking distance of the hustling town of East Stroudsburg 
and within easy trolley ride to the neighboring borough of 
Stroudsburg, this house, formerly known as the Locust 



of the Broad Verandas From the West 

Grove House, and so named by its first guest, .loseph 
Jefferson, is equipped with every convenience desirable at 
home and therefore welcomed at a resort. Electric light, 
hot water at all times, spacious dining rooms, five acres 
of lawn, dancing room, accommodations for 200 guests, 
hot water heating throughout the buildings, convenient 

mail service and 
freedom from ma- 
laria and mosqui- 
toes, due to the 
elevation of East 
Stroudsburg, good 
and healthful sur- 
roundings, togeth- 
er with b'25 feet 
of broad verandas 
make Maplehurst 
Beloved by All. 
Rates are within 
reason. 

With but one 
change from a re. 
sort, situated at 
a greater distance 
from East Strouds- 
burg, the owner 
of The Maple- 
hurst, M. L. Bach, 
holds a continu- 
ous record of 
"Satisfaction that 
brings you back 
to the same place 
over and over 
again." A beauti- 
ful grove of 10 acres with a spring of clear, pure water 
is located in the rear and within five minutes' walk of the 
house. Brodhead's Creek, one of the finest trout streams 
in the county, runs through the property about 500 yards 
from the house. The tennis court (clay bottom), and 
croquet grounds, are new and in the finest condition. The 
links of the Caldeno Golf Club are within easy access, and 
splendid bowling alleys within five minutes' walk of the 
house. Trolley cars to all parts of interest pass the 
grounds every twenty minutes. A garage for the use of 
the guests is maintained on the premises. All inquiries 
should be addressed to M. L. Bach, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



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THE BANKS OF Tl 
E RIVERSIDE HOTEL, BUSHKILL, PAl 

IS NOW UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF J. H. COOK, OWNER 



ONVINCING are the arguments presented bynature 
in behalf of the famous resort on the Delaware 
River, for years known as The Riverside, only 
two miles from Bushkill, Pike County, Pa., this 
year under the new management of one of the oldest resort 
men in this section. J. H. Cook, who will personally super- 
intend the house, is the well known manager of The 
Maples, which house has been under his charge for fifteen 
years. That the beauty spot of Pike, on the famous shale 
drive, will be under his care, is in itself an incentive for 
the lover of a delightful outing or a summer's ideal vaca- 
tion. 

The house will open on April 1, and Mr. Cook will be 
able to assure everybody who has ever learned to love the 
spot and thousands of others that The Riverside will be 
completely renovated and ready for those who desire com- 
lort and refinement, cleanliness and service. The fame 



A mile of river front, rustic houses, seats and swings, 
excellent fishing, bathing and rowing, a tennis court, cro- 
quet grounds, shady, well-kept lawns, garage and carriage 
facilities, mountain climbing up through beaten paths, walk- 
ing, autoing and driving roads to please the most fastid- 
ious, scenic beauties unsurpassed, convenient telephone and 
telegraph facilities, regular auto service to and from the 
station of the Delaware Valley Railway, at Bushkill, Pa.; 
these are some of the assured advantages offered by the 
new management. Mr. Cook is too well known to need 
a personal introduction further than the fact that he re- 
quires no bank to back up the statement that he will make 
good by making once again "The Riverside" the pleasure 
ground for thousands who love this beauty spot on the 
Delaware. 

The house has a double daily mail service. It is easily 
reached from New York via the D., L. & W. Railroad, 




Riverside Hotel and Annex, on the 

of this resort as an ideal autoist's stop-over will again 
spread over the lands under the direction of Mr. Cook. 
"On the Banks of the Delaware" will be found in and 
roundabouts this unexcelled location the resting place for 
the transient and the recuperating qualities for the per- 
manent summer guests, so much sought after but seldom 
found in the combination which here is idealized by nature 
and supplemented by the guiding hand this year of J. H. 
Cook. One could almost close the story thus: "Enough 
Said." 

It is, however, necessary to add that accommodations 
for 200 guests can be had here, with conveniences of the 
desirable class. Dining service will be up to the highest 
standard. The water is from an artesian well, over 200 
feet deep. The farm run in connection with the hotel will 
also supply the table with vegetables, fruits, milk, cream. 

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Delaware River, at Bushkill, Pa. 

from Philadelphia via the Pennsylvania Railroad, all trains 
connecting at East Stroudshurg with the Delaware Valley 
Railway direct to Bushkill station. From here The River- 
side auto service will bring guests to their destination in 
less than fifteen minutes' ride over the ideal Stroudsburg 
to Port Jervis highway. For rates and reservations at 
The Riverside, letters of inquiry should be sent direct to 
J. H. Cook, Proprietor, Bushkill, Pa. 

The Riverside needs no fish stories to make it famous. 
For it has the real thing to do that — the fish. Under Mr. 
Cook's management the resort is destined to be crowded 
to its present enlarged capacity throughout the season. 
There will be music in the air, recreation and sport every- 
where at the Riverside this year. Automobiles will fre- 
quent this spot, with the assurance that garage facilities 
will be ample to care for all those who wish to come. 



FOREST PARK BRINGS THE AOIRONOA 
F PENNSYLVANIA TO THE FRONT DOOR 

OF NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA— UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF ARTHUR LEDERER, PROPRIETOR 



F IOREST PARK is the most accessible, the most 
conveniently located, the most beautiful, the most 

S55 resourceful, the most comfortable, and the most 
_HHI healthful mountain summer resort, located in 
Pike County, within easy reach of Bushkill station, on 
the Delaware Valley Railway, Crowning the summit of 
the Blue Mountain Range in Pike County, Pennsylvania, 
and commanding a glorious vista of miles and miles of 
rolling mountain woodland, redolent ever of the balmy 
pines, is Forest Park and Forest Park Hotel and Cottages. 

The hotel is arranged in ten buildings accommodating 
about 350 guests, and fitted throughout with electric 
light. Suites of rooms may be had with or without bath. 
All buildings are connected with each other by continuous 
covered passages, affording full protection against incle- 
ment weather. The cuisine is unexcelled by that of any 
first class hotel, the markets of New York being called 
upon to supply in their season every luxury and delicacy 
that can be obtained. The Dairy Farm within the Park 
supplies all vegetables, eggs, milk and butter used in the 
hotel, and they come upon the table in their freshness 
and sweetness. A full corps of well trained servants, 
noiseless in their movements and deft in their motions, 



the New York morning papers on the hotel breakfast 
tables to keep the guests posted. 

The same health giving conditions prevail at Forest 
Park, Pennsylvania, that have made the well-known re- 
sorts of Sullivan County, New York, so famous. For Pike 
County, Pennsylvania, and Sullivan County, New York, 
adjoin. Both are at about the same elevation, with the 
same glorious mountain summits, the same sweetly 
breathing incense of the pine forests and the same health- 
ful influences. Invalids, mothers with delicate children 
and those blessed with boys who are "always running 
into danger and getting half killed," need have no hesi- 
tancy in regard to sojourning at Forest Park. A compe- 
tent physician is in attendance, although the place is so 
healthful there is scant need of his service. 

Taminent Lake, within fifteen minutes walk of the 
hotel, is 100 acres in area, with a depth of 60 feet and 
solid rock bottom. Forest Lake, with its 75 acres, is only 
500 feet from the hotel and amply provided with every 
facility for summer recreation. 75 row boats and canoes 
glide upon its surface. Sixty bathing houses edge the 
banks of Forest Lake. Even these, prosaic and plain as 
such structures always are, take on a beauty from their 

situation and envir- 




Forest Park Hotel and Cottages, Forest Park, Pa 

quickly and unobtrusively provide for every need of a 
guest. Service is faultless here. 

The Park is four miles long, and these four miles are 
a wonderland of nature's wildest beauty. It is the forest 
primeval, where evidence of the hand of civilization serves 
only to enhance the wild grandeur of the ever changing 
scene. The altitude of Forest Park is 1,600 feet above 
sea level, on the sun-touched, breeze-swept summit of one 
of the most beautiful plateaus of the Blue Hills. A thous- 
and miles and a thousand years from all civilization one 
could fancy these romantic spots, while actually the roar 
of the metropolis is only at the foot of the mountain, with 



onments, half hid- 
den, nestling in the 
forest growths that 
skirt the lake. Sea- 
shore pleasures may 
be enjoyed in the 
highest degree at For- 
est Park with advan- 
tages of dry air, high 
elevation and pictur- 
esque mountain 
scenery. This high 
grade family resort 
covers 2,500 acres of 
pine forest preserve, 
has a swimming 
pool, lawn tennis 
court, ball field, old 
German cafe, bowl- 
ing, billiards and 
pool, music and 
dancing, Viennese 
outdoor cafe and res- 
taurant, purest 
mountain spring wa- 
ter, perfect sanita- 
tion, garage, gasoline supplies, good stable, fine roads, 
local and long distance telephone via Stroudsburg, 
Adams Express service (direct to Forest Park, Pa.), and 
direct telegraph service by Western Union. A barber 
shop, manicure and hair dressing parlor is in charge of 
first class New York hotel barber; a complete laundry 
is at the service of guests. 

Forest Park is an officially appointed A. A. A. Hotel. 
The rates per day range from $4.00 to $7.00; per week 
from $20.00 to $35.00. The house opens on June fifteenth. 
Reservations can be made by addressing: Arthur Lederer, 
Proprietor, 39 Broadway, New York, until June twelfth. 



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THE STROUDSBURGS HAVE THROWING, BROAD SILK AND RIBBON MILLS 

This Story Is Written for The Bells to Give an Intelligible Idea of the Processes Involved in Silk 
Production. By C. A. HUBER, General Superintendent Fellows-Huher Co., East Stroudsburg 



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_ _ ONROE Countians, as well as the world at largf-. 
Wl are probably only casually familiar with the silk 
industry. The people may know of the payrolls 
affecting the prosperity of the communities, in 
which silk mills are located. But my experience has taught 
me that the layman would like to see the inside workings, 
as it were, of the industry, from the raw- 
silk production to the finished output 
of the varied branches of silk manufacture, 
if such it may properly be called in all the 
branches. If my effort in these pages will 
give a reasonably clear insight to the aver- 
age reader, I shall consider myself amply 
repaid. 

SILK IN DRESS ARTS 

Silk, the queen of all fibres, takes in these 
days one of the foremost places in dress 
arts. In nearly every household the silk fibre 
is favored either as dress or for ornamental 
purposes. The advantage of this great 
natural production over other fibres is chiefly 
in its lustre and its light specific weight — 
but the demand for it is now so great that 
it is made in thousands of varieties. The 
manufactured goods in the markets fifty years ago were 
of simpler variations and constructions. The increased de- 
mand for such materials has helped to produce fabrics of 
wonderful designs. To beautify and to cheapen such goods, 
an evolution both in the fibre and woven fabric has taken 
place. The markets today 
are filled with silk fabrics 
of the purest character, as 
well as with adulterations 
and mixtures with cotton and 
wool fibres — and even artifi- 
cial silk yarns of simple and 
scientific construction. 

Some silk fabrics are made 
for effect only; others are 
made for quality and effect; 
some for weight and effect; 
some for wear and lustre; 
and still others for wear and 
tear. 

RAW SILK— I will begin 
to explain the silk science 
with the cultivation of the 
mulberry trees whose leaves are designed by nature as 
the best food for the silk worms that spin the queen of 
all fibres — the silk cocoons. The silk thread is the finest 
and most lustrous fibre of all vegetable and animal produc- 




William A. Gilbert, President 
William A. Gilbert Company 




C. 1-. Fellows, General Manager 
I-ellows-Huber Company 



tion, because silk is the product of double transformation. 
Cotton is a direct production of a plant, while the silk 
is the result of two organisms — the tree, as a food factor 
for the silk worm, and the worms, a very short-lived organ- 
ism just created for the purpose of transferring these 
earthly organic elements into a fibre. The organization 
and multiplication of the cocoon silk fibres 
into a stronger thread, and the co-operation 
of many manipulations finally produce for 
us the greatest and finest fibre combination, 
called silk goods. 

SERICULTURE— The birth-places of the 
silk fibres are the countries of Italy, China, 
and Japan. Other countries like France, 
Persia, Greece, Spain, etc., are also engaged 
in a small way in the cultivation of the fibre. 
The principal countries for the largest pro- 
duction of raw silk will in future times be 
Japan and China, on account of theii skilled 
and cheap labor. 

The silk worm belongs to the species of 
butterflies — of the kind of spinners whose 
existence is subject to a complete trans- 
formation. Out of the egg comes a worm 
and from this life — a moth and then the butterfly. 

Japan is to be adjudged the leading country for giving 
sericulture the most extensive attention. Over 1,436,805 
families were engaged in sericulture in 1908. Over 4,564,- 
722 sheets of silk worm eggs were produced. One sheet 

alone holds one hundred 
moths. The raw-silk yield 
from these worms was over 
291,849,827 pounds. 

MULBERRY TREES— Na- 
ture has always produced a 
variation of trees for the 
same purpose. So we have 
in sericulture, early, medium 
and late budding trees, for 
the reason that the worms 
may have food in the early 
spring, as well as during the 
advanced seasons. Japan has 
covered over 103,100 acres 
with mulberry trees. The 
provinces of the greatest 
acreage of mulberry-tree plan- 
tations are Fukushima, Nagamo, Gumma, Yamasata and 
Saitama. As we have in all countries early and late crops, 
mulberry trees produce leaves for the worms of the first 
and second ages of silk worms. Some trees arc of the 



C. A. Huber, General Supt. 
Fellows-Huber Company 



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J. F. LEVY, Sec'y-Treasurer 
Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills 



species to furnish leaves for the third and fourth ages 
and some late trees for the fifth age of the worms. About 
fifty per cent, of all the mulberry trees planted are of the 
late variety, because the silk worms consume the most 
food in the last age. The quality of the leaves determines 
also the quality of the product of the worm — the cocoon 
SILK WORM REARING — Thousands of years ago the 
silk worms were found to spin in their wild state only a 
fairly silky fibre. Cultivation of the worms began soon 
after this discovery. Moths, eggs and worms were roared 
in housings (that means, they were protected from the 
rough weather and kept in a specific temperature). Cross- 
ings of worms were effected, 
and a higher product was pro- 
duced from century to cen- 
tury. The evolutionized silk 
worm — Boniby rnori — which is 
now cultivated all over the 
world, had as ancestors the 
wild silkworms — Bomby man- 
darana. This wild worm is 
still found in the fields. Arti- 
ficial or scientific selection of 
silk worms has gone on for a 
thousand years. The classi 
fications are distinguished ac 
cording to the number of 
times of hatching in a year. 
The silk worms are divided 
into three varieties: 

A. Annuals — that means those which make one gen- 
eration within a year; B. Bivoltines — two generations 
within a year; C. Polyvoltines — those producing three or 
more generations within a year. Distinction of their pro- 
ducts is also made by the color and lustre of the silk. 
There are white cocoons, yellow cocoons, and green co- 
coons, but the rearing of the white kind is now most 
favored. The classifications of the cocoons are made by 
the means of size, shape, and wrinkles of cocoons 

SPRING SILK WORMS— The silk worm growers are 
usually common farmers. They buy the eggs from the silk 
worm egg manufacturers who make a specialty of this part 
of the industry. Special egg nurseries are 
provided for silk-worm culture. The season 
of the spring silk worm growing begins, ac- 
cording to climatic conditions, variedly from 
early April to early May. In the middle of 
May some early varieties begin to spin co- 
coons. The time required from the hatching 
of the silk worm to the spinning of cocoons 
is about thirty-three days, or forty days at 
the most It is well to remember that there 
are spring, summer and fall silk worms. The 
spring silk worms always produce the best 
silk, on account of the soil imparting the 
best elements of nutrition to the mulberry 
leaves. 

The silk worms that are to be hatched in 
the spring are taken from the spring breed 
of moths, of the preceding year. The egg 
cards with the eggs of the spring breed are generally put 
into a cold storage room, or a natural cool cave or cellar, 
to preserve them or protect the eggs while in a dormant 
state. Two weeks before the anticipated date of the bud- 
ding of the mulberry leaves, the eggs are taken out of the 
storage room and are removed to the nursery, where they 
are subjected to artificial heat. From that time on, the 
eggs and worms have to be kept in a proper temperature. 
When the eggs have transformed to so-called ants — little 
worms — the most tender leaves are selected, finely chopped 
and scattered over the young worms for food. Minuto 




LAWRENCE L. LEVY, Supt. 
Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills 

the middle of September, 



Concise Facts 

ABOUT THE SILK IN- 
DUSTRY IN MONROE 
COUNTY 

Total number of 
employees, both 
sexes, 490. 

Total average pay- 
roll per year, $275,- 
000. 

With an expected in- 
crease of population, 
more help is in prospect, 
so that facilities can be 
increased to give employ- 
ment to many others. 



accounts of food, temperature and humidity are taken over 
thf young worms. The silk worms duly attain their full de- 
velopment after moulting five times and going through 
five different ages. As soon as they have attained a per- 
fect growth, they begin to spin their cocoons, wherein they 
rest themselves in peace until another metamorphosis 
comes over them. 

SUMMER SILK WORMS— The sericulturists divide 
their work and crops like the agriculturists. They cannot 
raise all the silk in the spring, because the farmers have 
rice, cereals, and other things to raise, so they produce a 
summer cocoon crop. The summer period lasts from the 

middle of June to the middle 
of July. 

AUTUMN SILK WORMS— 
The silk worm eggs for the 
autumn breed are selected 
from all three kinds of spe 
cies: from the annuals, the 
bivoltines, and the polyvol- 
tines. About 60 per cent, of 
the first and 40 per cent, of 
the latter two form the fall 
combination. The fall rear- 
ing is only made possible on 
account of the perfect intro- 
duction of cold storage 
houses for the egg cards. 
Fall rearing begins from the 
latter ten days of July to 
and only twenty-two days are 
needed for developing the eggs into cocoons. The trans- 
formations of the eggs at this time of the season are so 
rapid, profitable and convenient that the farmers will raise 
greater quantities in the fall from year to year. 

THE DISEASES OF THE SILK WORM— Improper tem- 
perature, unwise feeding, and the wrong fertilization of 
mulberry trees form a combination which must bring 
about waste in sericulture. 

REELING OF COCOONS— The cocoon threads are so 
fine and tender that a number of them have to be reeled 
together to produce the commercial thread — Raw silk. The 
cocoon threads are not twisted in reeling, 
because their natural gum pastes all the 
threads together as one. For the purpose 
of reeling, cocoons are placed in the reel- 
ing basin which is full of warm watei. 

The raw silk is first reeled on small reels 
and then again rereeled on larger reels, the 
size in which regular commercial silk skeins 
are marketed. To make one pound of raw 
silk, ten or up to fourteen pounds of fresh 
cocoons are needed, and only seven to eight 
pounds of dried cocoons. One hundred 
pounds of fresh cocoons furnish about eight 
pounds of marketable raw silk. The reeling 
of cocoons into raw silk is now chiefly done 
in factories which are called "Filatuie" or 
"Filanda." 

THE CLASSIFICATION OF RAW SILK— 
In Italy, Japan, China, and other countries, the reelers 
have all trade-marked their product. First class raw silk 
is recognized by evenness, cleanliness, elasticity, tenaci- 
ty, and strength. Uneven and knobby raw silk is marketed 
under very low classifications. Every "Filanda" has in- 
troduced in the market a number of trade-marks, called 
chop-tickets. Japanese and Chinese raw silks are made 
up n small packages, called books; one book contains 
thirty skeins of raw silk. An inspection of raw silk at 
shipping places is made by exporters. The process of inspec- 
tion is microscopical or mechanical in many instances. 



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THROWING OF RAW SILK 
Natural raw silk made from, the cocoons is not yet in a 
state, where it can be used for general weaving purposes. 
Of course quite large quantities of raw silk are used in 
special weaving mills, where warps in the grey or raw for 
piece dyed silk goods are woven. 

To stand the wear and tear of boiling and coloring in 
the dye-house, the raw silk must receive a twist of a speci- 
fied number of turns. For general use, two threads of 
twisted raw silk threads are thrown together to make one 
stronger thread. The throwing mills begin with splitting 
the skeins of raw silk into "slips" of convenient size for 
the purpose of making the winding from the small skeins 
to the bobbin easier. Raw silk is an article subjected to 
much adulteration. The reeler often adds in the course of 
reeling from the cocoon, to augment the weight of the silk 
fibre with diverse hygroscopic materials which are de- 
signed to deceive the buyer of raw silk. If the raw silk 
fibre is treated or weighted with alkalies — that is chemical 
substances in the reeling, in the throwing process and then 
again in the dye-house — it is no wonder that sucn silk 
must be tender. If the most scientific ways for detecting 
raw material adulteration are not employed in a silk mill, 
that mill must work with a system of continual claims. 

First-class throwsters are beginning to give the raw 
silk a better treatment than in former years. Not only the 
Chinese incorporate millions of dollars worth of adultera- 
tion in their silk; it is also well known that Japanese and 
Italian silks very often show 
the evidence of such decep- 
tion. 

TWISTING OF RAW SILK— 
The preparation of a weava- 
ble thread from the raw silk 
fibre for the purpose of mak- 
ing the best and strongest 
silks is a very important op- 
eration. The commercial silk 
fibre is of three kinds: 1. — 
Organzine for warps; 2.— 
Tram for filling and 3. — No 
throw, or singles, consisting 
of the thread as it is bought 
from the raw-silk merchant, 
or just a little twisted to be 
able to stand the operation of 
stripping and dyeing, 
eration after the throwing of the raw silk into tram or 
organzine is stripping or degumming. If the silk has not 
been adulterated and has not suffered by any of the bad 
processes in cocoon reeling or throwing, it rests upon the 
dyer to see that the silk leaves the dye-house in proper 
condition. To strip the organzine or tram from gum, the 
silk is softened over night in a lukewarm bath containing 
10 per cent, of the weight of the silk in soap and just 
enough water to cover the silk. On the following morning 
the soap water is removed and the silk is immediately 
whizzed in the hydro-extractor, and then subjected to 
stretching and steaming. 

SILK BLEACHING — Bleaching of thrown silk is for the 
purpose of removing from the silk the last trace of the 
natural color left after the process of stripping. A pure 
white can be obtained only by the bleaching process. 

SILK WEIGHTING — The commercial name, "Pure Dye" 
is not a true name, because only light shaded colors con- 
tain nothing but the silk plus the dye. Pure dye black and 
dark colors are really weighted silk, because the silk has 
an affinity for tannin, and all these pure dye colors are 
produced by galls, sumac, etc., which give the silk a little 
weight, but also a good touch and lustre. Besides the light 
weighted or "Pure dye" blacks, a process of heavier weight 




Louis Lippman, Manager 

Lippman & Abrash 

Stroudsburg, Pa. 

SILK STRIPPING— The next op- 



ib in operation. "Dynamited" silks belong in the class of 
heavier weighted silks. 

SILK DYEING — In order to turn out a given shade in 
dyeing, a dyer has rather to trust as a rule to his eye for 
color than to special formulas. Considerable ingenuity on 
the part of the operator has to be exercised. Dyeing means 
a more or less permanent chemical combination of the dye- 
stuff with the fibre. Silk coming out of the dye bath is 
washed several times in hard water. 

WINDING — Winding is an operation by which the silk 
(or any other material) is wound from the skeins by means 
of the winding frame to bobbins (also called spools). The 
winding frame is run at a high or low speed, according to 
the quality and size of the silk. The great importance in 
winding is an even, or regular tension of the thread. This 
first operation to prepare even wound silk will determine 
the success of the next operation. 

WARPING — The next process necessary — after wind- 
ing — is the preparation of the warp. The usual method of 
warping is by means of what is known as the warping mili. 
This warping mill consists of a reel of eight yards circum- 
ference, mounted on a frame. A number of bobbins in 
proportion to the number of ends or threads — of which 
the warp is to consist — are placed on a creel a distance n£ 
ten to twelve feet from the mill. The creel consists of a 
number of pins from 600 to 1,000, upon which the bobbins 
are placed. The threads are now taken from the bobbin 
and passed through a device called "reed." Alternate 

threads of warp aie made to 
cross each other, passing over 
and under two rods, thus 
forming the lease, so as to 
enable the weaver to take 
each thread separately. The 
mill is now made to revolve, 
thus winding the warp round 
it in a spiral form until suf- 
ficient length has been wound 
on. The warp is then wound 
on a beam or made ready for 
the loom. 

WEAVING — After all op- 
erations up to the warping 
have been performed suc- 
Alexander Abrash, Supt. cessfully, the warp is entered 

Lippman & Abrash . ,„,,.. 

btroudsburg. Pa. in harness and finally taken 

to the loom. Weaving is the art of combining threads, as 
to form a cloth or fabric. This combination may take a 
variety of forms, according to the intention of producing 
plain or fancy fabrics. For the ready and rapid combina- 
tion of threads, they are divided into two sets oi classes 
which are generally known as warp and filling; one set 
consisting of the threads which run longitudinally through 
the piece of fabric and which is termed warp, the other 
set being thrown or placed transversely and termed filling 
or weft. Regarding the mechanical operations of weaving, 
the combination, interlacing and arrangement of colored 
threads, taken separately, nothing could be more simple. 
If we take the three movements, which have to be executed 
in weaving, separately they are each simplicity itself, yet 
they are in combination beantiful, interesting and instruc- 
tive. The regularity and simplicity of the movements, the 
ease and rapidity of their execution, accompanied by the 
regular winding of the cloth on one beam, and letting off 
the warp from another, and the ever ready stopping mo- 
tions and protectors in the event of anything going wrong, 
bringing the loom at once to a dead stand, certainly pre- 
sent as beautiful and complete a machine as it is possible 
for mortal man to produce, or for the mind to conceive. 
The following are the principal tissues used: Taffetas, 
satins, twills, armures, gauzes, fancy, figured silks, etc. 



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A Modern Manufacturing Plant and Store Catering to the Buyer of Distinctive Furniture for Home and Business Use 

Artcraft Furniture from the Plant of the 
Brown Furniture Company 

At East Stroudsburg, Pa., Gives Distinction to Home, Office or Store 



N 



INETEEN Hundred and Ten, after the leaves 
began to fall, brought to Monroe County an awak- 
ening with the coming of W. E. Brown to East 
Stroudsburg. In him the city of Bangor, Pa., 



lost — in the same year — not only an artisan of high qual- 
ifications, but also the Bangor Woodworking Co., of which 
he was the manager. To use an old adage, "the world do 
move," the removal of Mr. Brown from Bangor resulted 
in the organization of the Brown Furniture Co., whose 
plant is located "at the state bridge," in the hustling man- 
ufacturing town of Monroe, where he has kept busy mak- 
ing things move up a few notches in the production of 
fine art furniture. 

This plant specializes in the art of distinctive designs, 
suited to the individual requirements of lovers of harmoni- 
ous effects in the furnishings of homes, offices, hotels, 
clubrooms, stores and other buildings. The shops are 
equipped with machinery of the latest pattern, adapted to 
the making of artcraft furniture. The showrooms are 
stocked with samples of the output of this plant, as well 
as with distinctive suite displays and individual pieces 
from the shops of well-known makers of high grade furni- 
ture, rugs and mattings. 

A visit to the Brown Furniture Company's premises 
supplies convincing proof that here real artistic taste pre- 
vails, the arrangement of stock on hand enabling the 
seeker after knowledge of "what is what" in the furniture 
line, to easily get posted by inspecting the combinations 
on display. The guiding hand of Mr. Brown keeps buyers 
from pitfalls in making their selections. The reputation 
of this house at the same time insures to all patrons sat- 
isfactory treatment in all other respects, while facilities 
and advantageous buying of raw lumber provide a guar- 
antee of moderate prices for "above the average standard" 
furniture. Lumber and manufactured output of the plant, if 



wholly shipped in and out, last year alone would have 
exceeded easily fifty carloads. But part of the raw material 
is bought in and near the home town, only a share of it 
coming from the South, while much of the finished work 
finds a ready demand in the home county. The trade of 
this company, however, extends beyond the state lines on 
many special orders. 

The Board of Directors of the Brown Furniture Co., 
includes: Luther S. Hoffman, President; H. B. Drake, J. 
W. Cornish, W. W. L'Hommedieu, and W. E. Brown, 
Treasurer and General Manager. The company gives em- 
ployment to from ten to fifteen men and disburses about 
$1,000 for labor and incidentals each month. 

Some of the important contracts, executed by the 
Brown Furniture Co., include equipment for the Mt. Minsi 
Hotel, the Hotel Sterling, extensive special orders for the 
Buckwood Inn, equipment for the Moosic and Moscow 
Y. M. C. A. buildings, White's Drug Store, at Stroudsburg. 
and wallcases, etc., for the leading barbershops of Mon- 
roe County. 

Mr. Brown is a native of Stroudsburg. Growing up in 
that community, he finished his schooling at the East 
Stroudburg Normal School, making his way through by 
special effort, later was supervisor of schools in Madison 
Township — in the southern end of Lackawanna County— 
and then went into business at Bangor. Today he is the 
directing force of one of Monroe County's leading estab- 
lishments. The location is at the line dividing East 
Stroudsburg from Stroudsburg, on the car line, and easily 
reached from the railroad stations of both towns. The 
store is always open for the inspection of visitors, many 
of the summer guests coming annually to Monroe County 
having in this manner learned to appreciate the advan- 
tages of made-to-order furniture, produced in the Artcraft 
shops of the Brown Furniture Company, East Stroudsburg. 



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IN MONROE COUNTY'S PROGRESS THE 

WHEELS OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE 

ARE DAILY MAKING HISTORY 

By EM1L HELD, Compiler of "The Bells, Ringing the Message of Progress 
of Monroe County and Tributary Country" 




VERYBODY is "busy as a bee." If thus I were to 
speak of the commercial and industrial strength 
of Monroe County, I would perhaps more clearly 
than is possible in extensive data typify the suc- 
cess along these lines, as figured in this present day, when 
material welfare is considered essential to the general 



dent industrial effort for these pioneers to even bring into 
play the axe of the wood cutters in the erection of their 
homes. It is only natural in this advanced age to look at 
industry merely from the viewpoint of the man who owns 
a modern manufacturing establishment of some kind. To 
such observers brick yards have only a meaning in the 




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Robert Brown, President 
Stroudsburg Industrial Club 



Dr. J. Anson Singer, President 
East btroudsburg Board of Trade 



Robert Eastwick, President 
Monroe County Poultry Association 



progress of a section. I have been told that only of late 
years has industry along manufacturing lines been develop- 
ed in Monroe County, and that what I see now is only the 
outgrowth of activity which became manifest within the 
past fifty years in lines of production, 
differing from the ordinary industrial 
undertakings found in the average com- 
munity. Right here I am forced to is- 
sue a call of warning to those who are 
inclined to depreciate the magnitude of 
industrial life, found in Monroe County 
in the early days and even long before 
that memorable year of 1836, when the 
erection of a separate county gave dis- 
tinction to the life within its boundar- 



Let us look back into the historic 
pages of villages and towns, of counties 
and of states, throughout the Union, and 
we will find hidden away somewhere 
the adaptation of the local advantages 
to the possibilities of growth, until some 
one or two people find the key to the 
solution of the problem called Industry. 
When Nicholas Depuy built his first 
gristmill at Shawnee over one hundred Wm M 
and fifty years ago, and in 1753 was 
followed by Ephraim Culver, who erected the second mill 
North of the mountains, there came into this section, now 
known as the County of Monroe, probably the first actual 
signs of real manufacturing. Yet, it must have been an evi- 




sense of their pay-roll and not as being adaptations of the 
clay of drift deposits to practical purposes. Without this 
latter natural advantage, the brick yards of this county 
would probably be eliminated from the industrial life which 
has reached a high state of general ad- 
vancement along all lines. 

It is. therefore, necessary to stick 
closely to the natural advantages in de- 
fining even to some extent the progress 
of industrial life in Monroe. This is no 
less essential in depicting the commer- 
cial advancement of communities or sec- 
tions. Frequently the commercial life 
may make rapid strides in the direction 
of great achievement, even where no in- 
dustries or only the essential black- 
smithing, baking and similar establish- 
ments, meeting the every day needs of 
any population, may be found. The for- 
ests of Monroe County, and that is true 
of that part of our near neighbor, Pike, 
which was invaded by advancing im- 
provements in the form of the Delaware 
Valley Railway, were early factors in 
shaping the industrial development of 
this section. Nature provided, in this 
instance, a logical avenue for industry 
along certain lines, and the sawmills sprang up as the 
result. 

When Col. Jacob Stroud abandoned his two years' ef- 
fort of transporting government supplies to Fort Pitt, near 



Burnett, Secretary Monroe County 
Agricultural Society 



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F. W. Posten, Jeweler 
Masonic Temple 
Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Louis Rupprecht, President 

Cameron Engineering Co. 

East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



G. S. Pullinger, Secretary 

Cameron Engineering Co. 

East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



F. F. Christine, Manager 

Stroudsburg Music Co. 

Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Pittsburgh, on account of lack 
of profit, and then entered into 
a contract with Abel James, a 
p r o m i nent Philadelphian, to 
carry provisions through the 
unsettled region North of 
Stroudsburg to Shohola, a set- 
tlement on the Delaware, he 
laid the foundation for the com- 
mercial development which is 
now so much in evidence in 
Monroe County. His saw mill, 
grist mill, blacksmith shop, and 
finally store, are other evi- 
dences of the adaptation of 
man to local conditions. Mr. 
Stroud probably followed the 
lines of least resistance in pro- 
viding avenues of industry aud 
commerce and thereby means 
of enriching himself. In 1822, 
the oldest tannery on record 
was built by Charles and Jacob 
Stroud, sons of Daniel Stroud. 
What became in later days the 
leather manufactory of W. R. 
Bennett & Co., was originally 
the Stroudsburg Tannery, erect- 
ed by Jacob Singmaster about 
1841. The flour mill, construct- 
ed by Daniel Stroud about 1822- 
23, later changed hands a num- 
ber of times until William 
Ackerman became the sole 
owner in 1873. William Wallace erected a saw mill in 
1865, while in the same year the Stroudsburg Woolen Mills 
was organized, but not operated before 1866, 
when Doster Bros, took hold. It sooti passed 
into the hands of Kitson, Walker & Davis 
for a short time and since then has grown 
into one of the largest industries of the 
state under the leadership of the Kitson 
family. In mercantile life Stokes & Brown, 
which firm in 1828 changed to Stokes & 
Staples, are favorably mentioned in early 
history. 

One other factor and one to be counted 
with in the progress of any community came 
into prominence comparatively early. The 
press must be reckoned with as a stimulat- 
ing influence to the growth of communities, 
entire counties, and even of complete com- 
monwealths. The first paper published in 




STROUDSBURG NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 
In the Heart of Stroudsburg. The Pioneer Bank of Monroe County 




M. Russell Yetter, President 
East Stroudsburg Glass Co. 



what has since become Mon- 
roe County was the Strouds- 
burg Gazette, which made its 
appearance in 1832 with John 
P. Robeson & Co., as publish- 
ers. Its career was doubtless 
short-lived, as no files have 
been found. James Rafferty, 
who came from Luzerne Coun- 
ty, started the Monroe Demo- 
crat in 1834. It changed hands 
several times, passing from the 
original owner to the firm of 
Rafferty & Hannum, then to 
Luther J. Ringwalt, later to 
Ringwalt & Schoonover, the 
latter member of the firm be- 
ing Barnet Schoonover of Mid- 
dle Smithfield. David Keller, 
of Stroudsburg, then publish- 
ed the Democrat about five 
years, when he sold to John 
DeYoung, who was succeeded 
by A. O. Greenwald as proprie- 
tor. He took in Thomas Me- 
Ilhaney as partner to prevent 
the latter's starting a new pa- 
per with Stephen Holmes as 
partner. Four months later 
Mr. Mcllhaney retired, and in 
April, 1879, the paper passed 
into the hands of R. S. Staples, 
who sold it again to Mr. Green- 
wald one year later. In 1882 
the Democrat was sold to Morey, Shull & Heller, publish- 
ers of the Monroe Journal, which later was merged with 
the Democrat. Still later a Daily Democrat 
was issued in connection with the weekly 
by the then owner, B. F. Morey, who con- 
tinued both papers until Sept. 1, 1907, when 
the plant was destroyed by fire and both 
the Daily and Weekly Democrat passed into 
the hands of the Stroudsburg Printing Co., 
whose management combined the daily with 
the Stroudsburg Daily Times, but continued 
to publish the weekly. 

This brings us to the history of the 
Stroudsburg Times, which was founded by 
Hughes & Gulick, on July 20, 1888, the mem- 
bers of the firm being Geo. C. Hughes and 
William Gulick. The casual passerby, in- 
quiring about the newspaper life of Mon- 
roe County, will be told by the average citi- 



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zen that one of the most aggressive news- 
paper men of the state was Geo. C. Hughes, 
during his career as a publisher. During 
his connection with the Stroudsburg Times, 
which was started on Green Street, the pa- 
per met all public issues fearlessly, and to 
his energetic advocacy in the columns of 
the Times must be attributed the activity 
of the people, so that the County Commis- 
sioners heeded the public wish and decided 
to erect a new Court House. On Jan. 20, 
1S92, Mr. Hughes bought out his partner 
and continued successfully alone. On Aug. 
13, 1892, part of the office was destoyed by 
fire but not a single issue of the paper was 
missed, which reflects credit upon the pub- 
lisher. Geo. C. Hughes was born at Flem- 
ington, N. J., in the early sixties, entered 
a printing office in 1877, and on Juue 6, 
1880, established his first newspaper, the 
"Hunterdon Advertiser." After three years he sold the 
paper and soon after left the town to become a commer- 
cial traveler. In time he returned to Flemington and 
started a job printing office. Later he spent several years 
on the New York 
World, and other 
city offices, until 
June 6, 1885, he 
launched the Pen 
Argyl Index. 
While still con- 
ducting this pa- 
per.he started the 
S troudsburg 
Times in partner- 
ship with Wm. 
Gulick. But in 
October, 1888, he 
disposed of his 
outside interests 
and thereafter de- 
voted all of his 
time to the Mon- 
roe county paper 
very successfully. 
It was due to Mr. Hughes' efforts that the Daily Times 
was established on April 2, 1894. He later also became the 
owner of the Jeffersonian, a weekly newspaper started in 
1840, and which was conducted by Theodore Schoch for 
more than 50 years, beginning with 1841. 
When Mr. Hughes sold the Times, some 
men thought that he was about to abandon 
the newspaper career, but he reappeared as 
the owner of the Jeffersonian and East 
Stroudsburg Press, under which name this 
weekly was brought into East Stroudsburg 
by him. The Morning Press, an East Strouds- 
burg daily, is also the result of his effort, al- 
though both papers have since been sold by 
him to Rev. Karl L. von Krug, Mr. Hughes 
now being engaged only in the job and book 
printing and binding business. In this busi- 
ness, under the firm name of The Hughes 
Press, he is very successful. 

The old site of the Monroe Democrat was 
purchased in 1907 by a corporation known as 
the Monroe Publishing Co., under whose own- 
ership the publication of the Monroe Record, 
a weekly, was started in 1908. The following 
year the same corporation also started the Daily Record, 
issuing both as Democratic papers. A. F. Everitt is editor 
of the Weekly and Daily Record, while N. A. Frantz is 




HON. T. Y. HOFFMAN 

Treasurer East Stroudsburg Lumber 

Co. Banker and Booster 





JOHN S. SCHOONOVER 

Treasurer Stroudsburg and 

Bushkill Telephone Company 



HON. E. F. PETERS, Pres. 
S. & B. Telephone Co. 




MISS O. M. POSTEN 

Secretary Stroudsburg and 

Bushkill Telephone Co. 



business manager. Chas. L. Drake is the 
editor and manager of the Daily Times, 
which is also a Democratic journal. C. A. 
Keiper is its city editor. The Jeffersonian 
and East Stroudsburg Press is the only Re- 
publican paper in the county, The Morning 
Press being Independent in politics. One 
other publication, The Mountain Echo, a re- 
sort publication started by the late Jesse A. 
Graves, photographer and all-around booster 
of Delaware Water Gap, is to be mentioned. 
This weekly was later sold by him to Geo. 
C. Hughes, then owner of The Stroudsburg 
Times. He sold it also to The Stroudsburg 
Printing Co., whose management has con- 
tinued it. Whatever its present scope of 
success may be, is attributed by many to the 
live advertising manager for that company, 
W. M. Burnett, who is, however, better 
known under the popular name of "Billy" 
Burnett. Those who have become acquainted with "Billy" 
through his activities as secretary of the Monroe County 
Agricultural Society and former head of the Monroe Coun- 
ty Poultry Association, realize the value of the two organi- 
zations and the'r 
active officers as 
factors in the up- 
building of Mon- 
roe County. 

To give news- 
paper work such 
prominence in the 
i n d u s trial and 
commercial prog- 
ress of the Coun- 
ty may seem ex- 
traordinary. But 
few men realize 
the basic import- 
ance of a news- 
paper to the en- 
tire progress of a 
community or, as 
in this case, coun- 
ty. Reme m b e r 
this: A community is known by the class of men who pub- 
lish their newspapers, and by the class of newspapers pub- 
lished by these men. If today all desire to make sacri- 
fices in behalf of a cause should die out in the hearts of 
men who risk the varying possibilities of 
newspaper life, there would be an immediate 
discontinuance of many newspapers. It is 
fortunate that such men as Mr. Hughes, who 
are unafraid to venture, have in the past en- 
tered the business of newspaper publishing 
and to some extent become responsible in all 
parts of the United States for the forward 
march which has marked their communities. 
That others are still following in the foot- 
steps of men of his enterprising spirit gives 
us reason to believe that communities will 
continue to look up to newspapers, even with 
their shortcomings, as a vital industrial factor 
in the advancement of the best interests of 
their section. 

Briefly then, the reader has become ac- 
quainted not only with the early history of 
commercial and industrial life in Monroe 
County, but has come to realize that there 
must be a cause as well as an effect, for progress along 
these lines. Nature provided some of the causes, the grad- 
ual settlement of people in a section and their consequent 




ED. SHAFER 
Gen. Man. Stroudsburg and 
Bushkill Telephone Company 



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requirements provide other causes. 
Newspapers are brought into existence 
or, in other words, caused by the desire 
of a number of people to become in- 
formed on certain subject matter more 
quickly than is possible by word of 
mouth. The effect of bringing into life 
these various business establishments, 
either of commercial or industrial na- 
ture, in itself is again a cause which 
must result in creating the need for 
other establishments. It must be clear, 
therefore, to the observant mind that 
commerce and industry reacts favorably 
upon itself and stimulates greater ac- 
tivity along these very lines. For this 
reason, men band themselves together 
in the present day into organizations 
which shall devote their time to a great 
extent to the bringing about of greater 
activity along the very lines mentioned, 
and it must not be forgot 
ten that the medium of 
publicity which helps to 
create and stimulate the 
activities of all interests 
remains the printed word. 
If the East Stroudsburg 
Board of Trade and the 
Stroudsburg Industrial 
Club have come into ex- 
istence through the recog- 
nition of cause and effect 
in the production of great- 
er activity in the commer- 
cial and industrial life, so 
have other and perhaps 
less directly similar or- 
ganizations taken a place 
in their communities in 
this county to stimulate 
a healthy growth, which 
must depend upon the in- 
creased commercial and 
industrial factors. It was 
always clear to the minds 
of individuals that Mon- 
roe County has won a 
place for itself sufficiently 
strong to bring into evi- 
dence the grinding of the wheels of industry and commerce 
which continue to daily make history in the foward march 

of Monroe Coun- 
ty, exemplified in 
the simple but 
telling words: 
"Progress." 

That stock 
farming has grown 
to be an import- 
ant factor in this 
county is now no 
longer questioned 
and it has been 
i n s t r umental in 
furnishing the 
cause for other in- 
dustries, organi- 
„,,.., „ „ zed since that 

F. J.Kistler, East Stroudsburg 

F. J. Kistler & Sons branch of farming 




Geo. C. Hughes, Proprietor 
The Hughes Press, East Stroudsburg 




EAST STROUDSBURG NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 
Home of The Keystone Building and Loan Association 





Joseph Weiss 

The Daylight Store 

East Stroudsburg 



has won a prominent place. Poultry 
has given added strength to our county 
and our co-related near neighbor, Bush- 
kill, in Pike county. Fruit growing is 
also figured now as an important in- 
dustry, the huckleberry of Barrett town- 
ship having helped to make Cresco 
quite a shipping point, while the apple 
is winning laurels in various parts of 
this county. In the advancement of all 
of these the efforts of the Monroe Coun 
ty Agricultural Society and of the Mon- 
roe County Poultry Association have 
been helpful, while for the apple the 
Monroe County National Bank, of East 
Stroudsburg, seems to have actively 
stimulated interest already awakened 
by the Agricultural Society. All this 
is evidence that industrial and com- 
mercial Monroe County is awake. 
To enumerate in detail the industrial 
and the commercial 
houses which are today a 
factor in Monroe county 
would be impossible. It 
is sufficient to state that 
many of these interests 
have co-operated liberally 
with the publisher, in or 
der to give evidence of 
their faith in the future 
of our section, by helping 
on to success this edition 
which shall go forth to 
their own friends at home 
and to the world at large 
as a direct emissary un- 
der the title, "The Bells, 
Ringing the Message of 
Progress in Monroe Coun- 
ty, Pa., and Tributary 
Country." If industry 
and commerce in this 
county continues to grow 
in the future as in the 
past, it must be largely at- 
tributed to the enterprise 
of these progressive citi- 
zens. 

Machinery and metal 
works, silk, woolens, hosiery, glass, furniture, leather, and 
other factories vie with each other in keeping the Strouds- 
burgs a busy in 
dustrial center. 
The new b u i 1 d- 
ings erected dur- 
ing the past 12 
months through- 
out the county de- 
note progress. Au- 
tomobile tr u c k s 
are everywhere in 
evidence and in- 
dicate that condi- 
tions are being 
met. Freight, in- 
coming and out- 
going, has reach- 
ed enormous pro- 

, ., J. A. Seguine, Cresco 

portions, while ex- ,, „„. . ° A ;. ,„, 

^ merchant and Live wire 




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Analomink Plant, Shop No. 2, of the International Boiler Works Co., East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



press shipments to and fro prove the adaptation of the live 
business interests to the requirements of speed. 

Commercially, the county is supplied with successful 

wholesale establishments and growing retail stores, meet- 
ing the needs of the permanent and transient or tourist 

population. The automobile garages tell 
of increasing sales of small and large cars 
for pleasure and commercial use as evi- 
dence of reasonable prosperity. The use of 
the telephone is extended throughout the 
county, putting the country in touch with 
the whole county. 

Today Monroe County is being put on the 
map of the world, just as readily by its 
manufacturers, as by its natural resort at- 
tractions. We find that thousands of those 
who come here to recreate consider it in 
teresting to pay a visit to the large plants, 
whenever the opportunity offers. 

Industrially speaking, East Stroudsburg is 
the hustling center of Monroe. The older 
Stroudsburg is a live wire competitor. The 
International Boiler Works alone, when run 
ning at full capacity, employs 125 men, with 
a payroll easily averaging $75,000 — and more 
a year. With a paid-in-capital of $300,000, 
this plant is equipped to cater to a trade demanding quali- 
ty, rather than devoting time to a quantity business ex- 
clusively. The officers are: Chas. S. Hebard, Chestnut- 
hill, Philadelphia, President; J. W. Booth, Vice President; 




H. B. Drake, East Stroudsburg 
Banker and Man of Affairs 



and General Manager; and 



Charles R. Turn, Treasurer 
Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, 
Secretary and Solicitor. 

Minisink Plant, Shop No. 
1, of the International Boiler 
Works Company, is located 
near the heart of the town, 
close to the freight station 
of the Lackawanna Railroad, 
las good switching facilities, 
and is devoted to all special 
work. Analomink Plant, Shop 
No. 2, located near Milford 
Crossing, is run excusively 
on standard work, such as 
vertical boilers and tanks. 
At this shop the bulk of the 

...... c ., . . A Stewart B. Taylor, Mgr., Strouds- 

Vertical boilers for the hoist- burg Creamery Co., Stroudsburg 

ing engine trade is turned out. The two plants have a 
combined floor space under roof of 60,000 square feet, in 
excess of sheds, boiler rooms, etc. Five electric traveling 
cranes, ranging from three to twenty tons, handle the work; 
air compressors, with a total capacity of 5,000 cubic feet 




of free air per minute, take care of the pneumatic tool 
equipment, such as riveters, drills, chippers, hoists, etc. 
Here will be found hydraulic riveting machines, of the 
Wood pattern, with a range of gap from 36 inches to 
3 26 inches, equipment graduating from fifteen tons to 100 
tons pressure; steam driven rolls running 
from four feet to eighteen feet between 
housings; plate planers with tables twenty- 
four feet in length; Lenox rotary shears; 
steam and belt driven punching machines, 
with capacities ranging from one-quarter 
inch through one-eighth inch plate to six 
inches through five-eighths inch plate. 

The International Boiler Works Company 
also carries a full line of patterns in its 
foundry, covering all kinds of castings, 
used in connection with boiler work, such 
as full flush fronts, grate bars, bases, 
hoods and circular grates. 

Commercially, the store founded by A. 
B. Wyckoff, J. W. Cooke and William Bell, 
may be considered equally important with 
industries. Started on April 22, 1875, in 
premises of 18x30 feet dimension, the busi- 
ness grew under the same management until 
the death of Mr. Bell fifteen months later, 
when it devolved upon the remaining partners to fight the 
battle. They succeeded. Later Mr. Cooke retired, remain- 
ing in the employ of the firm, however, until September. 
1910, when his death separated two intimate friends, Mr. 
Wyckoff feeling the loss deeply. It had taken only about 

three years of the mercan- 
tile life of the original firm 
to necessitate removal to 
the present site, where a 
building, 24x25 feet, was put 
in use. This again was en- 
larged until the store com- 
prised about 6,000 feet of 
floor space at the time of 
the thirty-seventh anniver- 
sary of the founding of the 
business by Mr. Wyckoff, 
an event which attracted 
wide-spread attention in 
1912. 

Since then the present 

Homer A. Sliupp. Mgr., Simon , , ^ , 

Shupp & Co., Effort, Pa. building has been erected, 

the son, Ernest H. Wyckoff, assuming the management 
after his father's death. The high standard set by the 
founders was maintained, with the adoption of the latest 
merchandising methods, so that the Wyckoff New York 
Store is recognized today as a modern department store, 



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worthy of the name and a place in the front rank of retail 
stores of the country. 

It is but right to step a moment from the industrial 
and commercial field to have a look into the financial sec- 
tion of Monroe County to bring home to the 
readers the marvelous advancement made. 
For in the latter we find men whose busi- 
ness interests have made them financiers 
by virtue of necessity. To meet the de- 
mands of varied interests Hon. T. Y. Hoff- 
man, originally a carpenter and builder, 
and later a lumberman of progressive ten- 
dencies, started with J. S. Schoonover and 
other associates the Monroe County Na- 
tional Bank, located at East Stroudsburg, 
after other banks had for years succeeded 
in serving a constantly growing demand for 
increased banking facilities. The bank's 
growth has been rapid, even though it is 
the youngest National Bank in the county. 
An inspection of another financial insti- 
tution's career enables to get a glimpse of 
merchants who have directed its affairs successfully for 
more than a quarter of a century. Here we find Harry 



short time of six hours and four minutes wool was sheared 
from sheep, turned over to the various departments in 
quick succession and a suit made for Thomas Kitson, Sr., 
head of the company. The world's record of eight hours, 
made in Scotland, was thus beaten by one 
hour and fifty-four minutes. 

One needs must go to other branches of 
industrial life to get a glimpse of the variety 
of products manufactured in this county. 
We have in the East Stroudsburg Glass Co. 
a large bottle and demijohn industry, the 
entire output going to commercial users. 
The business is of such dimensions that the 
company maintains its own box and crate 
making departments for shipping purposes. 
M. Russell Yetter is considered the youngest 
of the progressive men of the county at the 
head of a large industry. He recently also 
took the presidency of The Metal Crafters, 
whose plant is largely devoted to the manu- 
Wm. H. Metzgar, Treasurer The Metal facture of novelties for the general novelty 
Crafters, East Stroudsburg trade and specialties for plumbers' use in 

fitting bathrooms. 

A branch of the Whitall, Tatum Glass Co., of New York 




B. Drake, whose career found its inception in a retail gro- 
cery store, at the head of the East Stroudsburg National 



and Millville. N. J., manufacturers of bottles for the drug 
trade, is also operating in East Stroudsburg, promise of 







Plant of E. B. Marsh, Bros. & Co., Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Bank. Ability to organize has placed Mr. Drake also at the 
head or on the boards of commercial and manufacturing 
interests. He is president of the L. D. Sopher Co., whole- 
sale grocers, East Stroudsburg; president of the Keystone 
Building & Loan Association, and in one 
capacity or another connected with many 
other leading interests. 

Returning for a moment to the industrial 
field, we find in the silk industry factors im- 
portant enough to justify a separate article 
in this edition by C. A. Huber. As he covers 
the subject fully we pass on to the industry 
which has become popularly known as the 
Stroudsburg Woolen Mills, Thomas J. Kit- 
son being the moving spirit. This plant 
spreads the fame of Monroe County with a 
popular line of fancy woolens for the cut- 
ting trade to all parts of the country. Em- 
ploying a large force, mostly men, the pay- 
roll of Thomas Kitson & Son, Incorporated, 
Stroudsburg, Pa., exceeds now $90,000 per F ' A ' craners'"^ 
year, while the output approximates about 10,000 yards of 
material for men's and women's wear per week. 

Strange as it may seem, one of the world's records was 
made in this mill on May 19, 1898. In the remarkably 




extension being assured, as soon as additional help can be 
secured. 

The art branch of the glass trade finds an important 
industry growing into prominence in Stroudsburg, where 
the Gibbs Cut Glass Company operates its 
plant. 

So much has been said of the prominence 
attained by East Stroudsburg as a manu- 
facturing town that outsiders might be 
tempted to look at this community only in 
that light. It is therefore worth while to 
mention that the retail trade in the younger 
community is awake and hustling to attain 
an equally high standard in all lines. Loder's, 
the oldest store here, is to be remodeled to 
meet the requirements of growing patron- 
age. The Daylight Store, one of the latest 
additions in the retail merchandising field, 
devotes its attention exclusively to ready- 
to-wear articles in modern premises. Shultz's 
"stroudsburg eta Quality Shop, in East Stroudsburg, is mod- 
ern, catering to men and women, while the same owner 
maintains a Stroudsburg store for men's wear. 

The grocery stores of East Stroudsburg aim just as 
high in the quality of goods sold, as they do in attention 



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to service. In the pharmacy field East Stroudsburg is well 
supplied, the Crystal Pharmacy, to many Monroe Countians 
better known as Dr. Bush's Drug Store, maintaining a 
modern soda fountain service. Also the 
Red Cross Pharmacy, Rhodes & Dun- 
ning, proprietors. 

In the electrical supply and trade 
work, August Engelhardt, of East 
Stroudsburg, has won attention for 
Monroe County, not only by local con- 
tracts, but also by successfully figuring 
on work outside of the county and state. 

Jacob Kintz is a jobber of cigars, etc., 
while Pipher's Bakery, as well as Will- 
iam Kohl's Bakery, do a large wholesale 
business in and out of town. All are 
located in Stroudsburg. John G. Drake 
and Wirt D. Miller conduct groceries. 

The Stroudsburg & Bushkill Tele- 
phone Company, a strictly home con- 
cern, has done much to provide close 
inter-communication between the vari- 
ous sections of the county and her 
neighbor Pike, aiding in the general de- 
velopment of this region by its own 
growth. The Stroudsburg Music Com- 
pany, under the leadership of F. F. Christine, has given 
the county seat a modern business with aggressive poli- 
cies, worthy of the 
success achieved. In 
the millinery lines, 
Miss Carolyn Miller 
has set a standard 
along New York re- 
cords. As Miss Miller 
gained her experience 
there, it was to be ex- 
pected that she would 
make Stroudsburgers 
and the rest of the 
county sit up and take 
notice. Among those 
who purchase jewelry 
and kindred goods, F. 
W. Posten has gained 
respect and confidence 
by reliable treatment 
and modern displays, 
Mr. Posten adhering 
to the policy of mark- 
ing the price of every- 
thing in plain figures. 




Rev. Karl L. von Krug, Publisher 
The Morning Press, East Stroudsburg 




Exterior of T. B.Drake's General Merchandise Store, Washington St., East Stroudsburg 
There is a general belief that certain conditions favor 
manufacturing enterprise in given localities. Both East 
Stroudsburg and Strouds- 
burg, as well as other parts 
of Monroe County, possess 
every element necessary to 
induce people to locate in 
these towns. That the 
younger community has 
been exceedingly fortunate 
in bringing new industries 
within its borough limits, is 
ascribed by many to the 
activities of the East 
Stroudsburg Board of Trade 
whose members believe in 
their town. 

It was due to their efforts 
that only recently two cap 
factories located here, one 




the Holtite Cap Company, the other the Capital City Cap 
Company. Both are bringing new labor to the borough. 
The cosmopolitan president of the East Stroudsburg Board 
of Trade, Dr. Singer, is a firm believer 
in the policy of "going after them," 
and in this he is heartily supported by 
the other members of the trade body. 
The element of power naturally en- 
ters into the calculations of those who 
seek manufacturing locations. And 
this element is provided for by nature 
and by those who feel that electricity 
does more work than hot air. The 
Citizens' Gas & Electric Company is 
a strictly home corporation, bearing in 
mind that both gas and electricity are 
needed for completing the circle of 
necessities looked for by newcomers. 
Thus we find a clean fuel supply for 
the dainty housekeeper combining its 
benefits of lighting the home at the 
same time. For those who need elec- 
tricity for power and illumination 
abundant provision has been made by 
this company. A. A. Holbrook, the 
managing head of this enterprise, is 
still a young man qualified to meet the needs of the grow- 
ing demand for these modern elements of progress. The 

company's headquar- 
ters are located in 
Stroudsburg, but their 
territory extends over 
both boroughs. 

The magnitude of 
the publicity, secured 
for Monroe County 
through individual ef- 
fort, is best shown in 
the Slee Laboratories, 
makers of Biologic 
Products, at Swiftwa- 
ter. Pa. Few men 
could have realized 
that the establishment 
of these laboratories, 
in 1897, would result 
in bringing before the 
U. S. Army and other 
branches of the Gov- 
ern m e n t service, as 
well as Boards of 
Health in many parts 
of the Union, and before foreign governments. Monroe 
County products of vital interest to medical science. Dr. 

Richard Slee is a former 
Army officer whose social 
standing enhances the bene- 
fit accruing to Monroe 
County through his enter- 
prise, in which he has the 
active cooperation of his 
son, Arthur M. Slee. 

Practically sixty years of 
continuous business life in 
the county of Monroe is the 
record of a firm, now known 
as E. B. Marsh, Bros. & Co., 
at Stroudsburg. Started 
first in Snydersville by the 
grandfather, Isaac Marsh. 




W. Dinstel, Mgr., Snow-flake 
Roller Mills. Effort, Pa. 



Floyd C. Van Why, Transfer and 
Trucking, East Stroudsburg 



who was succeeded by his 
son, John Marsh, the busi- 



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ness grew to the present dimensions by careful attention 
to the needs of an exacting trade. The Stroudsburg plant 
was started in October, 1903, with two molders, the de- 
mand increasing until now there are twenty- 
three men employed. The four partners in 
the present firm are: E. B. Marsh, H. B. 
Marsh, M. M. Fetherman, and R. J. Marsh. 
Of these, E. B. Marsh has been in the busi- 
ness about forty years. In the Stroudsburg 
plant they turn out eighteen to twenty tons 
of castings per week, their principal work 
being in boiler and railroad castings. They 
also make general castings. 

We come again into the financial field to 
cast our glance in the direction of the 
Stroudsburg National Bank, the pioneer 
institution of its class in the county. Here 
we find in the directorate men of promi- 
nence in every branch of business and pro- 
fessional life, with B. S. Jacoby, who has 
been connected with the bank for years in other capacities, 
as president. In like manner we find here C. B. Keller, 
Jr., the cashier in active ser- 
vice in a responsible position 
which came to him as a re- 
ward of faithful service after 
Mr. Jacoby's election to the 
presidency. Naturally this 
bank clings to its record as 
an indication of progress. 

Risen from the ranks, 
Stewart B. Taylor, manager 
of the Stroudsburg Creamery, 
occupies a responsible posi- 
tion as an officer of the com- 
pany. He gives the business 
his personal attention and 
his patrons are assured of 
prompt service. Mr. Taylor 
is a hustler of the younger 
class of enterprising busi- 
ness men of Stroudsburg. 

That business men can ad- 
vertise the resort region, is 
proven by A. W. Kistler, 
proprietor of the Pocono 
Hosiery Mills, East Strouds- 
burg. The product of this 
factory to a large extent goes 
out as the "Pocono Mills" 
brand. While this may only 
have slight bearing on the 
summer business, Mr. Kistler's output reaches a class of 
business men who are generally recognized as intelligent, 
for buyers of large houses are paid for know- 
ing things. The constant reminder of the 
Pocono name, placed before them, either 
strengthens the publicity secured through 
direct resort advertising or makes them 
wonder why this firm selected that particu- 
lar name in branding some of the output. 
And the old saying that "every little helps" 
applies here. 

The resort men must recognize the fact 
that the business men of this county are 
responsible for bringing many people here 
who would otherwise perhaps be tempted 
to go elsewhere to spend their vacation. It 
is for this reason, as much as for any other, 
that "The Bells" represent in this one edi- 
tion all branches of the boosters of this 




H, P. Custard, Manager 
Burnett Garage, East Stroudsburg 




The happy life, the life ideal to Monroe boys makes its appeal, 
rhrough industry they all attain, in later life, both wealth and fame 



county. Take for instance, speaking in a personal applica- 
tion, the whole-souled general manager of the International 
Boiler Works, of East Stroudsburg, Charles R. Turn, who is 
active in many other interests, or William 
A. Gilbert, president of the William A. Gil- 
bert Company, who "wears the smile that 
won't come off," and others of their class. 
If mercenary motives alone prompted them, 
it. would soon be forgotten that they are 
after business. In such men — and by the 
way, they are constantly in touch with the 
big men of the country — it is apparent, that 
they live up to the faith in their county that 
is in them. We all know that "when you 
can meet a man at the door and shake 
hands with him and make him feel you are 
glad he came, you have made it fifty per 
cent easier to sell him." This is equally 
true of the president of the Monroe County 
National Bank, Hon. T. Y. Hoffman; of 
Louis Rupprecht, a man who is on the road throughout the 
country, who never fails to boost Monroe County, and of 

others. It holds good of F. 
F. Christine, manager of the 
Stroudsburg Music Company, 
and Ernest H. Wyckoff, a 
Stroudsburg merchant and 
Princeton man, who natural- 
ly once in awhile spends a day 
off with the fans of this great 
educational center. 

Let no man say that the 
business man fails in his 
share to advertise Monroe 
County resorts. I could men- 
tion fifty without effort who 
could not help doing so. For 
their nature is "to boost." 

Take Homer A. Shupp, 
manager of the spoke works 
of Simon Shupp & Co., at 
Effort, Pa., located in the far 
Western end of Monroe Coun- 
ty, whose mill sends its pro- 
duct to many points in Penn- 
sylvania and New Jersey. 
Every time a shipment goes 
to a customer, that section of 
Monroe, and therefore all of 
the county, is put on the 
map. This will be still more 
so when the railroads pro- 
tap this rich "garden spot of the West End." For 




\V. A. Meyers, Furniture Dealer 
East' Stroudsburg, Pa. 

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jected 

industry in Monroe County starts with the boys and girls 
on the farm who aid in the upbuilding of 
that which helps of necessity the resorts, 
while they grow into sturdy manhood and 
womanhood, the best product of Monroe 
County and her neighbor Pike. Coopera- 
tion has helped in the past and will help in 
the future. The "pull together" spirit is in 
evidence everywhere. 

The older men are telling their sons, 
whom they have trained to respect values, 
to take hold and run things in the modern 
way, if need be. to keep up with the times. 
In the store of F. J. Kistler & Sons, at East 
Stroudsburg, we find Lee Kistler, a running 
mate to his father. In W. A. Hughes, we 
find a young man running a new business 
in the grocery line of necessities and luxu- 




Harvesting ice at Lake aupaunoming, Saylorsburg, Pa., one of the many Mon- 
roe industries. In summer this lake affords other pleasures to the visitors 



ries, with success and his son. Earl, helping the good work 
along. In C. L. Wallace we have a late accession to the 
East Stroudsburg business field, a young hardware dealer 
who believes in doing things and who apparently can stand 
"hard ware" well. 

In the East Stroudsburg banking life there is John N. 
Gish. the live wire cashier of the Monroe County National 
Bank. M. S. Kistler holds the responsible position of 
cashier at the East Stroudsburg National Bank. 

At the Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills we find Lawrence L. 
Levy, the superintend- 
ent, one of the young- 
est business men of 
Stroudsburg, conduct- 
ing the producing end 
of an important indus- 
try. In the same town 
we find Joseph Wal- 
lace, youngest perhaps 
of the young men, 
giving material assist- 
ance to his father, 
Lewis A. Wallace, who 
conducts the largest 
hardware store in this 
county, and one of the 
few stores in the same 
family for 50 years. 

The youngest finan- 
cial institution, the Se- 
curity Trust Co. of 
Stroudsburg, organi- 
zed in 1907, belongs to 

the booster class. Its president is P. R. Johnson, the well- 
known lessee of The Glenwood, a famous Delaware Water 
Gap resort. Frank B. Michaels is secretary and treasurer. 
He is in the prime of life, active in many ways, systematic, 
and by his courtesy constantly winning favor as a banker. 
Differing from the National Banks in scope, this organiza- 
tion derives benefit from the advantages obtained by its 
charter, making for itself a worthy place among the finan- 
cial interests of the county. The directorate includes busi- 
ness and professional men from all parts of Monroe, and 
one member from New Jersey. 

The Monroe Mills, East Stroudsburg, also prove the 
advantage of cooperation between two generationns. Here 
J. M. Wyckoff finds the assistance of his son, Fred A. 
Wyckoff. valuable in the conduct of the milling business. 

At Effort, Pa., the Snowflake Roller Mills, 
under the management of H. W. Dinstel, do- 
ing business in the firm name of G. Dinstel 
& Sons, produce the Snowflake Self-Raising 
Buckwheat Flour. As it is sold by the trade 
in and out of the state, direct advertising 
value accrues to Monroe County. 

The personality of men enters into the 
value of publicity, thus secured. And, for 
this reason, it must be apparent to the 
casual observer that the active members 
of the Fellows-Huber Co., Broad Silk Manu- 
facturers, at East Stroudsburg, gain prestige 
through the fact that they are young men. 
C. L. Fellows, the general manager, as well 
as A. C. Huber, the general superintendent, 
take an interest in the community growth, 
while directing the affairs of their company 
with energy. 

It applies with equal strength to another 
important industry that "young men are 
coming into their own." At Bushkill, Pa., 




Chark-s Decker, Proprietor 

Prospect House. Kast Stroudsburg 

President Board of Education 

and All-around Booster 



there is a modern poultry farm, conducted by two brothers, 
Clinton and Norman Guillot. They do a successful busi- 
ness under the name of the "Bushkill Poultry Farm," 
Guillot Bros., proprietors. 

In Stroudsburg, Robert Eastwick owns the Braeside 
Poultry Farm, an extensive industry. That his efforts in 
this work are appreciated — by his fellows in the business 
— is shown by the fact that he recently was elected presi- 
dent of the Monroe County Poultry Association, organized 
for the interchange of scientific and practical poultry facts. 

In East Strouds- 
burg again we find the 
president of the Capi- 
tal City Cap Company, 
H. D. Goodenough, 
though a late addition 
to the community, 
jumping with the vig- 
or of youth into the 
a c t i v i t ies and the 
booster family of the 
town. "It's catching," 
said Mr. Goodenough 
recently, with refer- 
ence to the enthusiasm 
of those who induced 
him to locate here. 

C. W. Smiley, better 
known as "Charlie" 
Smiley, or "Smiley, 
the Groce r," is a 
worthy pupil of the 
newer school of mer- 
chandising. His store is located in East Stroudsburg. 
Salathe & Rohrbacker's meat market is itself evidence 
of "modern methods applied" by the members of the firm, 
consisting of W. E. Salathe, L. F. Salathe (to his friends 
known as Fred), and M. A. Rohrbacker. 

C. B. Hartman, well known to those who order plumb- 
ing and kindred work as Charlie Hartman, now has the 
cooperation of Jacob Hartman, Jr., in the conduct of the 
firm of Hartman Bros. 

August Engelhardt, the electrician, ranks with the 
leading contractors of Monroe County, having built up a 
big business in his line in and out of the county through 
progressive attention to the needs of his clients. 

The above named three firms all maintain their head- 
quarters in East Stroudsburg. The outsider would find it 
worth while to spend a day to look around 
and prove to his own satisfaction that 
"energy sleepeth not" in the Stroudsburgs. 
Young as the business of the Brown Furni- 
ture Company, East Stroudsburg, is W. E. 
Brown, the active manager, has amply 
shown that art in furniture making produces 
men who are craftsmen. Having made his 
way through school, including the East 
Stroudsburg Normal, he has won recogni- 
tion as "the craftsman," an unsolicited 
compliment from an appreciative buying 
public. 

And right here it is worthy of note that 
the East Stroudsburg Normal has given to 
the world at large many artisans in other 
lines, who, as her alumni, continue to boost 
for Monroe County. 

Several years ago two young men, Louis 
l.ippman and Alexander Abrash were in- 
duced by J. F. Levy, of the Stroudsburg Rib- 
bon Mills, and others to locate their broad 



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silk mill here in quarters rented from Mr. Levy. Today 
these same young men direct their affairs in a plant 
especially erected for their needs. 

In the short period of two years, 
T. J. Knox, commercial and portrait 
art photographer, has won the respect 
and confidence of the people of this 
county and a large number of summer 
visitors who find occasion for his ser- 
vices in season. 

McFall & Warne, grocers, have the 
stand which has been a grocery store 
for half a century. Solidity of charac- 
ter strengthens their hold on patrons 
who believe in them and their word. 

Speaking of personalities, the faith 
of Stroudsburgers in H. E. Sweeny, 
secretary of public service companies 
supplying gas, electricity, etc., who has 
given in the past of his time as secre- 
tary of the Industrial Committee of the 
Stroudsburg Industrial Club, is a rea- 
sonable indicator of Mr. Sweeny's pop- 
ularity as a man. 

The same must be said with un- 
questioned sincerity of Luther S. Hoff- 
man, president of the East Stroudsburg 

_ j . . , ... Wm. E. Brown, Craftsman, East Stroudsburg 

Lumber Co., and Vice president Of the Manager Brown Furniture Co. 

East Stroudsburg Board of Trade, who is interested in stand, is modern 
a number of enterprises, where success spells "ad- Engine Works is 
mission to the inner 




circles." He always 
boosts for Monroe. 

Among the mer- 
cantile leaders of 
Monroe one must 
needs look for J. A. 
Seguine, who has 
built a modern de- 
partment store near 
and around a rail- 
road station. At first 
glance this appears 
to be an illogical 
statement, but inves- 
tigation will prove 
it to be a fact that 
Mr. Seguine has suc- 
ceeded in doing at 
Cresco what may 
seem to many readers 
impossible to accom- 
pli s h in fair-sized 

towns Interior East Stroudsburg Can 

Of the older establishments, T. B. Drake, 
the grocer and general store owner, of East 
Stroudsburg, remains sucessfully in the 
field. The latest modern store is that of 
Jensen and Meichner, shoe merchants, who 
recently opened the fine corner store in 
the East Stroudsburg Masonic Temple. Mr. 
Meichner is a young man. In the contract- 
ing field we find such men as W. E. Van 
Vliet, Contracting Painter and Decorator, 
who has been in Monroe County ever since 
he came to see the light of day. He is a 
man of enterprise, active in public affairs, 
president of the East Stroudsburg Council, 
recognized as a representative citizen, and 
respected by all men. Edgar Rinker, Builder 




vorably known in his field, having achieved success in and 
out of the county. A. M. Price is now the owner of an es- 
tablished garage, at East Stroudsburg, 
where he has just purchased the plant, 
formerly known as the Snover Automo- 
bile Company. Floyd C. Van Why is 
a young man who is striving to win re- 
cognition in the business of trans- 
ferring baggage and general cartage. 

Stroudsburg has its young men a- 
plenty who are reaching for greater 
things. There is Kistler's Vinegar 
Works, where young men have the man- 
agement. Weiss Bros.' store for ladies' 
and men's wear is in charge of a young 
man. Frankenfield's Shoe Store is 
managed by its owner, one of the 
younger business men. The First 
National Bank of Stroudsburg has in 
the capacity of cashier the oldest banker 
of Monroe County, Wm. Gunsaules, 
who is called by his friends the young- 
est old man in the financial field. In 
the poultry field we find at the Blue 
Mountain Poultry Farm a young man, 
Claude Truslow, closely associated with 
his father, W. H. Truslow. LeBar's 
Drug Store, for years at the same 
in its arrangement. The Stroudsburg 
an up-to-date plant. The Stroudsburg 
Brewing Company 
which changed hands 
last fall, is under 
the management of 
enterprising men. 

The Stroudsburg 
Industrial Club held 
its election of officers 
on February 12, 1915, 
and, following the 
trend of the times, 
infused new blood in- 
to the directorate of 
its body. S. E. Shull, 
an attorney of prom- 
inence, interested in 
business and financial 
institutions of magni- 
tude, was chosen 
president. Ernest H. 
Wyckoff was elected 
to the office of vice 
president. Going 
back to business, 



Kitchen, Adjoining Post Office, A. D. Tsukatos, Prop. 



and Contractor, of East Stroudsburg, is fa- 



where it is combined with pleasure, George 
L. Hicks recently became manager of the 
Stroud Theatre, Stroudsburg, a good omen 
for the county seat. This theatre is planned 
to meet the needs of a bright future. 

At Wallace's Department Store the man- 
agement of an extensive Business is in the 
hands of A. Reeves J. Wallace, owner and 
a young man, whose standing in the com- 
munity has brought him recognition in 
the financial field through his election to 
the directorate of the Stroudsburg National 
Bank. 

East Stroudsburg is fortunate in the pos- 
session of many industries whose principal 
_ owners make their home in the county. 

\\ . Kistler, Prop., Pocono Hosiery „,, . , , ,, 

Mills, East stroudsburg, Pa. There is also an outside Industry repre- 




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sented with one of its largest branches, giving employment 
to many men. The Elk Tanning Company, with general 
offices in Ridgway, Pa., has this plant under the direc- 
tion of H. H. Ten Broeck, superintendent. Mrs. J. H. 
Lanterman conducts successfully a music store, where 
Monroe Countians feel certain of fair and reliable treat- 
ment. She makes a specialty of Packard and Lehr Pianos, 
one for the demand of experts and the other for popular 
sale, the Lehr appealing to many who want 
to patronize home industry, as nearly as 
possible, for it is made in Easton, Pa., by 
one of the largest manufacturing plants, 
located there. Raub and Lanterman con- 
duct a furniture and undertaking business. 

Among the industries catering to a na- 
tion wide trade are to be counted the New 
York Piano Stool and Manufacturing Com- 
pany, East Stroudsburg, where the secre- 
tary, Chester G. Booth, has the manage- 
ment. This company has just bought out 
a competitor, gaming thereby greater pa- 
tronage and providing greater scope for its 
output. This is now one of the largest 
industries in its field, the product going 
wherever music finds its way. 

The Cameron Engineering Company, 
with its secretary, George S. Pullinger, directing the 
affairs in the home office in East Stroudsburg, is putting 
out overhead handling devices, such as transfer cranes, 
trucks, etc., finding a market for its product throughout 
the United States. 

Announcement has just been made that the Brooklyn 
Bolt and Forging Company has decided to move to East 
Stroudsburg, where they will erect four buildings imme- 
diately. There are only four factories of this nature in the 
whole country, so that the Monroe County manufactur- 
ing center may well be proud of the accession to its many 
industries. 

A large brick plant is also operating in East Strouds- 
burg, J. H. Zacharias being the owner. Thus I have gone 
briefly over the most important interests affecting the 
future growth of Monroe County. If any have been over- 
looked, it was unintentional, for I am vitally interested 




A. J. Reeves Wallace, Prop. 

Wallace's Department Store 

Stroudsburg, Pa. 



facts, the publisher of "The Bells," George C. Hughes, 
agreeing with me that the truth is efficient in itself. 
There is but one more factor of vital interest of which I 
want to make casual mention, for its future must affect 
the growth of one section of the county materially. Pro- 
gress must continue to be the password of the officers 
of the Delaware Valley Railway. 

If in my days I shall have the satisfaction of seeing 
"Pennsylvania's Favored Region" grow into 
still greater opportunities as the result of 
my humble efforts on "The Bells," I shall 
feel amply repaid to have had a share with 
the publisher, George C. Hughes, who has 
given unstintingly of the best that is in 
him, to make them ring out loudly "the mes- 
sage of progress of Monroe County, Pa., 
and Tributary Country." 

Monroe County has wholesale houses of 
good standing. The L. D. Sopher Com- 
pany, wholesale grocers, at East Strouds- 
burgs leads. If anyone doubts that the 
smiling countenance of Harry Olldorf, sec- 
tary of this company, is other than a valu- 
ble asset of Monroe County, as well as an 
advantage to his house, let him find occa- 
sion to meet "Harry." In the same manner 
the rotund, happy treasurer of this company, L. D. Sopher, 
in looking after the inside affairs makes one feel glad 
to be in Monroe County. The Uncas Poultry Farm, at Dela- 
ware Water Gap, needs mention in passing. It is a 
modern place of business. 

A general review suffices to reiterate these facts of 
importance, so that they will sink in to bear fruit for the 
good of this section. Home industry provides in Monroe 
County for practically every need of her people. One 
could almost say that it is possible to clothe men, women 
and children from head to foot with home made apparel, 
for which the materials come from local factories. There 
is but little lacking, and that little stands in a fair way to 
be added to local industries. In the iron foundry and 
machinery lines, it has come to pass that those who wish 
can have nearly everything required through home pro- 
duction. Successful farmers, in every branch of that indus- 






Jesse Ransberry, East Stroudsburg 

President Monroe County 

Agricultural Society 



W. E. Van Vliet 
Contracting Painter and Decorator 
President East Stroudsburg i 



w. C. Hood, Racing Secretary 

Monroe County Agricultural Society 

Stroudsburg, Pa. 



in making this showing of Monroe County and that part 
of Pike — which is tributary to this section — as complete 
as possible. No attempt has been made to exaggerate the 



try, for such it must be called, are in a position to supply 
practically every home necessity of the table. Mer- 
chants cater to home trade as well as summer visitors. 



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AT STROUDSBURG 

GREW FROM A SMALL INCEPTION TO ITS PRESENT STRENGTH 



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UILT upon a solid foundation, Wallace's Depart- 
W ment Store today stands as a monument to the en- 
terprise of William Wallace, the founder of the 
merchandising establishment, now located at Main 
and Sixth Streets, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He started 
it before the Civil War. Later Joseph Wallace, his broth- 
er, who had been employed by Robert Boys, became a part- 
ner in the firm. At that time the business was located 
in premises near the Washington House, where hardware 
and staple lines of dry goods, shoes, groceries, etc., were 
carried in stock. 

In 1877, Joseph Wallace, then the sole owner of the 
store, took his oldest son, Charles D. Wallace, into part- 
nership, moving the entire 
stock, with the exception of 
hardware, into the store at 
the corner of Main and 7th 
Streets. The father continued 
to look after the hardware 
department at the old store, 
leaving the management of 
the new store in the hands of 
his son. 

To meet the growing de- 
mand, another storeroom was 
added to the Seventh Street 
premises two years later. 
When it became necessary to 
branch out on a still larger 
scale, the land was purchased 
at the corner, where the pres- 
ent imposing premises are 
located, and a new building 
erected. On March 20, 1899, 
the business was moved to 
the new building. Two years 
previous to the removal, A. 
Reeves J. Wallace, an- 
other son of Joseph Wallace, 
was admitted to a limited 
partnership. This son be- 
came a full partner in 1904, Wallace's Depai 
a year before the demise of Joseph Wallace, who had be 
come recognized as a leading business man of the com- 
munity. 

The senior Wallace had been active in local affairs, 
was looked upon as a man of financial strength and ability, 
being honored with the vice-presidency of the Stroudsburg 
Ntional Bank. At his death this honor fell to his son, 
Charles D. Wallace, who later became president. 

The elder brother held these connections until his death, 
which occurred on December 13, 1913, when A. Reeves J. 
Wallace assumed the management of the store. He had 
also been elected to the directorate of the Stroudsburg 
National Bank. 

With a line of dry goods, men's, women's and chil- 
dren's cloaks and suits, men's furnishings, fancy and staple 
groceries, the Wallace Department Store has always lived 
up to the standard set by the founders. 



The grocery department has given the store a unique 
standing in Monroe County's business enterprises. For 
the line is extensive, while the general delivery service in 
town and country is particularly appreciated by the pa- 
trons of this department. 

Located at a prominent corner, the store is well lighted, 
possesses modern facilities for the convenient handling 
of the indoor business transactions, and retains a patron- 
age of people who have done their shopping here for years. 

One of the features of this establishment is apparent 
to every visitor. It is a complete department store, as 
complete in departments as may be found in Monroe 
County. It has taken years to build this organization 




tment Store, Main and Sixth Streets, Stroiu's^urjr, Pa. 

which today has an opportunity of looking into the future 
the living child of its founder, Jacob Stroud. There is rea- 
tively, with the assurance that the founders and their 
successors have builded wisely and well. 

The realization that in the forward march of business, 
every energy must be bent for the retention of past 
achievements stimulates the present owner, A. Reeves J. 
Wallace, who is in the prime of life, to greater efforts to 
enlarge upon the success of the past by additional attain- 
ments in the future. 

It is with this end in view that every purchaser is 
made to feel that the Wallace Department Store aims at 
reliable merchandise, full measure or weight, reasonable 
prices and good service in all departments. The Wallace 
store can be relied upon to sell goods as represented, the 
honor of the house being staked on its claims. This makes 
the Wallace store one of the reliable stores of the county. 



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The Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills, Stroudsburg, Pa., a Leader In Its Branch of the Monroe County Silk Industry. 

Complete in Every Detail of Equipment 
The Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills 

HAVE BECOME WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS A STRONG INDUSTRIAL FACTOR 



OMING from Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1910, where the 
the business was conducted as the Brooklyn Rib- 
bon Mill, the Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills descend 
directly from the former industry. Incorporated 
on April 1, 1910, with a capital of $30,000., the following 
officers were elected: S. E. Shull, President; J. F. Levy, 
Secretary and Treasurer; and L. L. Levy, Vice President 
and Superintendent. A modern building was erected and 
immediately equipped with all the latest machinery. 

Twenty-five looms, with all necessary auxiliary machin- 
ery was started at once. Since the demand for the ribbon 
output has been so great that an additional building be- 
came necessary. There are now seventy-five looms run- 
ning with bright prospects for the future. 

Over $100,000 worth of machinery is used in operating 
the mill, including winders, warpers, quillers, weaving 
looms, and finishing machines. A very extensive dye 
house is also run in connection with the plant. About 125 
employees are necessary for full time operation, with a 
payroll amounting to about $75,000 annually. 

Satin Taffeta is the principal output, although of late 
several other ribbons have been added with great success. 
The total output of the mills approximates in round fig- 
ures about $35,000 in cash monthly, the product going 
direct to jobbers. Figured in yardage the monthly pro- 
duction totals about 1,000,000 yards. 

A visitor to the Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills would be 
surprised at the simple manner in which ribbon is manu- 
factured here. The raw silk, received in skeins, is wound 
on spools of which warps are made. These are twisted, 
each end individually, into the loom, when they are ready 
for weaving. The woven product goes to the dyehouse in 
accordance with the orders sent from the main office 
which is located at New York city. Dyed ribbon is con- 
veyed to the finishing room, where it is treated with great 
care owing to the quality of the ribbon. Then it is 



blocked and boxed, when the ribbon is ready for the 
market. 

Apparently this process is simplicity itself, but after 
all one needs to know the how and the why. The 
Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills deserve credit for the important 
part played by their interests in the upbuilding of Monroe 
County and as an industrial factor in the county seat. 

The Finishing Department of the Stroudsburg Ribbon 
Mills, which was moved to Paterson, N. J., two years ago, 
and later to New York City, has again been installed in the 
Stroudsburg plant, giving employment to additional hands 
here. The Sales Department, from which the entire finish 
ed product is distributed, is located with the New York 
office. This company now also makes a specialty of Fancy 
Ribbons, including Fancy Hat Bands for hatters and mil- 
liners, Striped Ribbons for milliners, Ribbons for Trim- 
mings, used by women's and children's wear manufactur- 
ers. The Stroudsburg Ribbon Mills do their own silk 
throwing, making it into three thread tram largely, and 
some into two thread tram, of 15 to 20 twists to the inch, 
for the manufacture of their ribbons. 

At the New York office, located at 55 Grand Street. 
J. F. Levy also carries on an extensive raw silk importing 
and brokerage business, selling raw silk to manufacturers 
in large quantities, in most cases to firms whose orders call 
for shipment direct to throwsters who cater to the trade. 
In the raw silk import line for thirty years, Mr. Levy has 
acquired an expert knowledge of testing silk. This experi- 
ence has proved to be of great value to him in his ten 
years' connection with ribbon manufacture. It likewise has 
brought him an extensive raw silk patronage among the 
traie, that branch of his work being entirely conducted 
under the firm name of J. F. Levy, with an annual turn- 
over in excess of the ribbon mill business. The imports 
come largely from Italy, Japan and China, the cable ad- 
dress being "Intelligent," New York. 



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Edgar Rinker, Contractor and Builder 

AT EAST STROUDSBURG, HAS WON THE CONFIDENCE OF CLIENTS IN AND OUT OF 
THE STATE WITH STRUCTURES FOR HOME AND BUSINESS PURPOSES 



COMING to East Stroudsburg from a farm, on which 
he had worked for some time, Edgar Rinker start- 
ed to learn the carpenter trade, serving an appren- 
ticeship for a period of five years. He then worked 
as journeyman for two years, was foreman for three more 
years, and in 1897 started in the gen- 
eral contracting business on Green 
Street, East Stroudsburg. Three years 
later he opened a planing mill on 
Courtland Street, at Teeter Street, con- 
tinuing his building and contracting 
work at the same time. Here he was 
located for six years, when he moved 
to 201 Washington Street, where he re- 
modeled the home which he had pur- 
chased from Mrs. Emma McCormick. 

At the Washington Street address 
he has maintained his business address 
ever since. He has been located there 
for nine years. As Mr. Rinker is doing 
some large contract work right along, 
it is well to mention that he has built 
up his business by strict application to 
his interests and those of his clients. 
He is a man of refinement, yet with 
simple tastes; a believer in home life 
and a builder of homes; a good Dusiness 
calculator and a successful erector of 
structures devoted to business and manufacturing purposes. 
Socially, he believes that "a man is known by the com- 
pany he keeps," and he travels accordingly in the circles 
that are respected and 
deserving of respect. 
Mr. Rinker believes 
that what is good for 
himself is none too 
good for his family, so 
that he places at the 
disposal of his house- 
hold the best of every- 
thing at all times, in- 
cluding educational 
advantages worth 
while. It may be due 
to this trait in this 
master builder that he 
has won out on many 
competitive bias, 
whenever quality came 
Into consideration. He 
is president of the 
East Stroudsburg Mil- 
itary Band. Also trus- 
tee of the local M. E. 
Church. 

Among the most 
notable contracts ex- 
ecuted by Edgar Rin- 
ker are local and out- 




Edgar Rinker, Contractor and Builder 




erected the residences of F. J. Kistler, Mrs. Edith Jay 
Brockley, M. E. Raub, and W. C. Drake; the East Strouds- 
burg National Bank Building, and the Masonic Temple. 

At Stroudsburg, he built the handsome residence of 
John S. Schoonover, in Highland Park, as well as the Dr. 
N. C. Miller Building, the Churleigh 
Inn, and both shops of the Inter- 
national Boiler Works Company, Num- 
ber 1, near the Lackawanna freight 
station, and No. 2, above Milford 
Crossing. He had once before built 
the Numb r 1 shops, securing the con- 
tract for the second time, after a fire 
had destroyed the original structure. 
Mr. Rinker erected the first building 
for the Buck Hill Falls Association, 
when that settlement was started some 
years ago. He has also built five good 
residences in Belvidere, N. J., among 
them one for Prosecuting Attorney Al- 
bert A. Angle, at a cost of $8,000, and 
one for George P. Young, Cashier of 
the Warren County National Bank, the 
latter costing $15,000. 

A handsome brick residence, erected 
by Edgar Rinker for Superintendent 
Tonkin, of the Zinc Mine at Franklin 
Furnace, N. J., brought the contractor 
such favorable attention that Mr. Tonkin urged him to 
settle there. 

Of the buildings mentioned, it is interesting to call 

attention to the extent 
of the structures put 
up for the Interna- 
tional Boiler Works 
Company, at East 
Stroudsburg. These 
are not ordinary shop 
buildings, as may be 
best judged from the 
photographic repro- 
ductions of the build- 
ings appearing in this 
edition of "The Bells." 
They have been 
built with a view to 
carrying heavy ma- 
chinery and shafting 
accommodating 
weighty materials. In 
their particular case, 
it was also necessary 
to pay attention to a 
uniform influx of 
light. In the facilities 
necessary for the 
most convenient hand- 
ling of this company's 
extensive business, 
the contractor was ob- 
viously forced to con- 



of-town residences of 

considerable m a g n i- H ° me ° £ Ed S ar Rinker, =oi Washington Street, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

tude, as well as important manufacturing and other build- sider first of all the interests of his clients. Mr. Rinker 
ings. In East Stroudsburg alone he has— among others — is qualified to do this and has won success on this basis. 



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toou.cl.s.buTg^s Solid Growth m the Past Asgimirea 
Prosperity foir the Fetore 



By S. E. SHULL, President Stroudsburg Industrial Club 



DANSBURY was the original name of the settlement 
in and around which Jacob Stroud founded Strouds- 
burg in 1769. Daniel Brodhead was the original own- 
er of land on which the town now stands. 
Much that is now history was essen- 
tially responsible for the growth of the 
community which has found favor in the 
eyes of thousands who Have settled 
here, and tens of thousands who annua' 
ly visit the many resorts of Monroe 
county. For Stroudsburg is not merely 
the County Seat, but a beautiful town 
and a desirable place in which to live 
and do business. 

According to Col. Jacob Stroud. Fort 
Hamilton was built as one of a line of 
other forts extending from the Delaware 
to the Potomac, erected by the English 
as a protection against the French and 
the Indians. The fort stood nearly op- 
posite where the Mansion House, the 
old Stroud Mansion, now stands. Fort 
Penn was built during the Revolution on 
the hill near the Eastern part of Strouds- 
burg and was the home of Col. Stroud 
until his death in 1806. These forts still 
live in the annals of Stroudsburg's past 
history, although that is all that remains. Coupled with 
their existence was that part of American history which 
centered in the tribe of Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians. 
Col. Stroud's son Daniel became responsible for the broad 
streets, when he practi- 
cally laid out the town in 
1S10 and required with 
every deed of sale that 
the prospective building 
be placed thirty teet from 
the sidewalk. 

Such names as those of 
Lynford Lardner, Peter 
LaBar, who erected a log 
house near the west side 
of the borough in 1730, 
and others stand out pre- 
eminently among those 
who located hereabouts 
nearly two hundred years 
ago. The longevity of our 
former citizens, as well 
as many of those of the 
present day, tells in it- 
self its story of healthgiv- 
ing qualities to be fouud. 
Such men as the noted 
George LaBar, a direct 
descendant of Peter, who 
lived to be one hundred 
and eleven years old, are 
part of tho history of 
Stroudsburg. As early as 
February 6, 1815, the vil- 




HON. CHARLES D. BRODHEAD 
During His Life a Respected Citizen of Strouds- 
burg, Whose Name Brings to Memory that of 
Daniel Brodhead, one of the Earliest Settlers. 




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Stroudsburg Methodist Kpiseopal Church, 
Rev. Amos Johnson, Pastor 

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lage of Stroudsburg was incorporated as a borough. Reg- 
ular local government comes first into evidence, however, 
with the organization of the county and from that time 
appears to have been continued to the 
present date. The first actual officials 
on record make their appearance in 
1836, when Peter Wyckoff was Burgess, 
and John Boys, Jos. V. Wilson, Stogdell 
Stokes, Morris D. Robeson and James 
H. Stroud were the councilmen. Among 
these only the name of Wyckoff re- 
mains as one of the leading family 
names of the present day. 

Col. Jacob Stroud once again comes 
into evidence as the first merchant, 
while later during the early part of the 
present century John Witchel, a Quaker 
of English descent, and his wife began 
a general mercantile business in a 
house standing where the American 
House is now located. Another name 
in the mercantile field was that of 
Samuel Brooks, while Stogdell Stokes 
is mentioned as another early merchant. 
John Malvin, George H. Miller, John 
Boys, Robert Huston, Chas. R. Andre 
and Nicholas Ruster belong in the ear- 
ly class. For many years it was thought that Stroudsburg, 
notwithstanding its advantages of water power and rail- 
road facilities, was largely destined to be a home center. 
The community has lived up to every claim which might 

be made for it along ihese 
lines, but has also won for 
itself a place as a manu- 
facturing center, as may 
be seen from the showing 
made in this edition by 
local manufacturers. It is 
not my purpose to length- 
ily dwell upon the advan- 
tages possessed by Strouds- 
burg as both a home, com- 
mercial and industrial fac- 
tor in the County of Mon- 
roe. This must be left to 
the individual interests 
who claim the right and 
are justly entitled to the 
honors along these lines. 
Prosperity has been 
showered upon us by na- 
ture and by local enter- 
prise. A healthy local gov 
ernment has at all times 
been provided, while the 
citizens have always voted 
for the best interests of 
the community. Only re- 
cently a large vote was 
cast for the paving of 
Main Street, our principal 




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thoroughfare, a step which must lead to benefits for the 
entire town. If the old saying that "we are here, because 
we are here," is to be applied to the future progress of 
Stroudsburg, I am very much afraid that temptation would 
beset us and that we would be inclined to rest on our 
laurels. But I have reason to believe that Stroudsburg 
citizens, already in the possession of the county seat, 
already proud of the solid growth which has characterized 
the past, will make a continued effort to be true to thair 
forefathers who laid the foundation for power in commerce 
and industry, by matching their efforts in the future. 

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad, a 
branch of the Erie system, has centered its passenger and 
freight facilities in our midst. The accessibility of the 
Delaware. Lackawanna & Western, the Pennsylvania and 
the Delaware Valley Railway systems for our town cannot 
be questioned. The station, it is true, for these roads is 
located in the heart of our sister community, East Strouds- 
burg, but an interchanging electric line service has brought 
the two into closer com- 
munion. 

That we have reason to 
look back upon the past 
with pride in the present 
goes without saying. Streets 
have been improved, light 
and sewer facilities with- 
in our town limits are 
equal to all requirements, 
splendid mansions and un- 
usually good modern homes 
provide for the needs of 
our people according to 
their own taste, churches 
in turn prove the allegi- 
ance of our people to that 
which is right; lodges are 
active in the promulgation 
of the spirit of kindly feel- 
ing, while modern business 
structures speak abundant- 
ly for the solidity of our 
mercantile and industrial 
life. The younger element 
which is gradually coming 
into its own — proves up to 
the standard of aggressive 
progressiveness, which has 
always marked m other 
communities the beginning 
of a new era of greater 
prosperity, founded upon 
the success for which their 
elders had labored continuously for many years past. 
Our school system has come to be recognized as of the 
highest standard by leading colleges and prominent busi- 
ness houses throughout the land, our graduates winning 
honors everywhere. The development withiu the past 
fifty years must be credited to a certain extent to such 
men as B. F. Morey, and the late J. E. Shull and I'rof. W. 
H. Ramsay. Our fire and police departments have en- 
deavored to keep step with the progress of Stroudsburg, 
although it is only appropriate to mention that there never 
has been, and I hope there never will be, any need of a 
large police force. From our midst the visitor to Monroe 
County can now travel over a scenic route in electrically 
propelled coaches, not only to the famous Delaware Water 
Gap, but through Bangor and other places all the way to 
Philadelphia. In this manner we also benefit from the 
direct traffic which culminates in our community from 
nearby resorts. It has been said by some that we lack 




Malta Temple, Main Street, Stroudsburg— The Home of St. John's 
Commandery, No. 186, Ancient and Illustrious Order Knights of Malta 



only one thing, and that one missing link has been named 
by them "union with our sister community, East Strouds- 
burg." How justly this claim may be looked upon by 
others, I am not prepared to say. Recently it was pointed 
out to me, that we have a modern theatre iu our com- 
munity, considered far in advance of our needs, thanks 
to the enterprise of those who were willing to risk idle 
capital, but that it has prospered to some extent through 
the co-operation of our neighbors across the State Bridge. 
Be that as it may, I am willing to say this much in behalf 
of union that, if it ever comes to be a fact accomplished, 
the county seat will at least have reason to feel proud of 
any accession due to such a change. Meanwhile, it will 
be our purpose to continue to live and to act in a manner 
which is befitting a community whose record is one of 
progress in the past and whose achievements can only 
mean greater advancement in the future for Stroudsburg, 
the lving child of its founder, Jacob Stroud. There is rea- 
son for all to point with pride to this illustrious name. 

Stroudsburg's borough 
officials are costantly 
striving to conserve the 
interests of all residents 
in every undertaking. They 
are: C. L. Edinger, Chief 
Burgess; Edwin Shafer, 
President of Council; Jas. 
B. Van Etten, Oscar R. 
Shafer, W. C. Hood, H. Q. 
Snyder, Councilmen; Mich- 
ael Super, Tax Collector; 
Capt. John B. Williams, 
Solicitor. Mr. Williams 
also fills the clerkship. 

James K. S,pragle is 
Chief of Fire Department; 
Chas. P. Whitu is Assist- 
ant Chief; C. L. Wallace, 
Foreman Chemical Com- 
pany, No. 1; A. M. Marsh, 
Foreman Phoenix Fire 
Company, No. 2; T. H. 
Welter is Chief of Police; 
L. Phillips and R. J. Bush 
are Overseers of the Poor. 
The members of the 
Board of Health are; Dr. 
W. E. Gregory, D. W. Lee, 
Philip LaBar, Andrew Hel- 
ler, and Dr. H. S. VanEt- 
ten; Samuel Smiley is 
Health Officer. The Jus- 
tices of the Peace are: U. 
L. Walter, Robert Gruver. Wm. Swartwood is High Con- 
stable. The other constables are: Wm. H. Makin, First 
Ward; Clarence Shafer, Second Ward; Edwin Johnson, 
Third Ward; John Oyer, Fourth Ward; A. E. Miller, Fifth 
Ward. The Young Men's Christian Association has recently 
moved into new and commodious quarters and has thus en- 
larged its scope. Building improvement is making itself 
felt in every direction, the latest news along that line in- 
dicating that cosmopolitan retailers are recognizing the 
forward movement of the Stroudsburgs. As a convention 
center, the community is also receiving favorable attention 
by fraternal bodies, transportation facilities to the two 
boroughs making the selection of Stroudsburg for state 
meetings desirable. Hotels and boarding houses offer every 
convenience for lodge members and their friends to make 
their stay pleasant. Lighting facilities are also being im- 
proved to meet requirements of building advancement. 
Stroudsburg is justly proud of the progress being made. 



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Vj P^QHF TUST as Monroe County, Pa., had 
^B ^k ^f I reached maturity, far-sighted men 

^H| lfc. ** of that day with the sturdy faith 

B. s. jacoby of pioneers organized the first finan- 
President cia j institution of the county. If one 

is tempted to believe that these founders of The Strouds- 
burg National Bank had second sight, there is ample rea- 
son for it. for the prosperous community grew all around 
it. Today this bank holds the center of attention, not 
merely by reason of location, but also by virtue of an en- 
viable record, for through war periods and panics this 
institution has prospered. 

The first directors, chosen on July 20, 1857, were: Jay 

Gould, Stephen Kistler, Hon. Henry M. LaBar, Thomas 

W. Rhodes, Chas. D. Brodhead, John Boys, Stroud Hollins- 

head, Davis Walton, Michael Shoemaker, Chas. Saylor, 

Morris Evans, William S. White, and Depue S 

Seven days later, on July 

^^^^ 27, 1857, Mr. Miller was 

^^ elected president and held 

9W the office until 1866. At 

i^^ Bk the same time James H. 

H Stroud became the first 

cashier, holding the office 

iv until 1867. Later records 

^^k > Jl show even 

V fg of office by their succes- 

^B B^ sors. When B. S. Jacoby 

^BJ^ B^ was chosen president this 

year, he had been with the 

hank for over 35 years, 

having served as cashier 

13 years, while his successor to the latter post, C. B. Keller, 

Jr., has a record of 27 years service with the bank. 

That this reward of faithful service has from the begin- 
ning given the assurance of solidity and induced faith of 
depositors, not only in the directorate, but in the strength 
of the bank, is shown by the remarkable record of over 
$1,500,000 in deposits, attained this year. Just 12 years 
ago the million was still missing in the grand total of de- 
posits, the amount then on record being $486,714.20. Un- 



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[''luancial Instil 

LEADS WITH AN ENVIABLE RECORD 




C. B. KELLER, JR. 
Cashier 



Miller. 



HON. 



A. M. PALMER 
Solicitor 




questionably personal service and effi- 
cient management must be responsi- 
ble for such increase. The identifica- 
tion of the bank's present Board of 
Directors with the progressive busi- 
ness interests also shows a cause for the prosperity of this 
financial institution. On this Board are: B. S. Jacoby, 
president; R. H. Kintner, vice-president; Hon. A. M. Pal- 
mer, solicitor; Hon. Harvey Huffman, solicitor; W. L. 
Andre, Joseph Shifter, Jacob Kintz, Henry Eilenberger, A. 
R. J. Wallace, Charles R. Turn, all of Stroudsburg; Hon. 
E. F. Peters, of Bushkill; John Fabel, of Snydersville, and 
Theodore Gearhart, of Gilbert. 

The Stroudsburg National Bank's present site was 
chosen by the stockholders on February 9, 1858, the lot 
being acquired from James Stroud for $1,100. Here one 
other record needs mention, speaking volumes, as it does, 

for the hank's securities. 

At the present time bonds 

and securities, besides .U. 

S. bonds of $110,000 held, 

amount to $945,113.88, 

while 25 years ago this 

bank held only United 

States bonds to the amount 

of $70,000. With dividends 

of nearly $500,000 paid 

since organization, the. 

surplus fund of this bank 

today totals $300,000. The,. 

capital is $100,000. Aside 

from general banking with- 
in the scope of a National bank, giving large and small 
checking accounts alike careful attention, the Savings 
Department shows over 4,000 savings depositors, includ- 
ing many mail accounts, on the records of this "Roll of 
Honor Bank," with a surplus and profits far in excess of 
its capital. The $100 Club, started to induce the saving 
habit for varied purposes with the minimum of 25 cents 
a week, places the Million Dollar Bank within the reach 
of all. This innovation has met with great success. 




HON. HARVEY HUFFMAN 
Solicitor 





Here the Bank's Clients Transact Routine Business 



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Guillot Bros. Have Made 

Their Bushkill Poultry Farm 

a Center of Interest 



AT BUSHKILL, PA. 





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The Guillot Family Home at Bushkill 

ALONG the Delaware River, just fourteen miles from Dr. Guillot. Both of the present members of the firm, 
the Stroudsburgs, is the village of Bushkill, Pa., known as Guillot Bros., were born in Bushkill, where they 
where Guillot Bros, conduct their Bushkill Poultry have always made their residence. Norman, the younger 
Farm Ideally situated, having unlimited range, good brother is agent of the Delaware Valley Railroad at Bush- 
drainage and an abundance of pure sparkling spring kill, having held the position since the road was built, 
water, the farm has become recognized as one of the Clinton Guillot took a special course in State College 

attractions of this section of 
Pennsylvania. The aim is to 
supply city patrons with 
strictly fresh eggs for family 
use, the parcel post facilities 
of the present day insuring 
deliveries within a radius of 
100 miles before the eggs are 
24 hours old. Naturally the 
demand for day-old eggs from 
the Bushkill Poultry Farm 
is rapidly increasing. 

The flock of chickens is 
composed of one breed — Sin- 
gle Comb White Leghorns. 
Here will be found about 
4,000 of the finest White Leg- 
horns that can be seen on 
any poultry farm of the pres- 
ent day, made up of two of 
the most noted strains, the 
Dan Young, of America, and 
the Tom Barron, of England. 
Guillot Bros, were among the 
first and largest importers 
and breeders of the English 
stock. Prospective poultry 
raisers desiring new blood 
will do well to communicate 
with this farm, as they make 
a speciality of hatching eggs 
and of day-old chicks in sea- 
son, as well as a fine breed- 
ing stock at all times. Visi- 
tors are always welcome to Panoramic View of Main Buildings at the Bushkill Poultry Farm 
this notable Pike County 

farm, while prospective buyers will find it a pleasure to in dairying and affiliated branches. In 1900 and for sev- 
look over the stock here. eral years thereafter he conducted a creamery in his home 

The property comprising the Bushkill Poultry Farm town, keeping a few chickens as a side line. Finding poul- 
has been in the Guillot family for two generations, being try profitable, he gave up the creamery business in 1905 
originally purchased by the late Dr. P. J. Guillot of the and turned the buildng into a feed and incubator house, 
John Heller estate. The family home was also built by launching out extensively in the poultry line. Each year 

new buildings have been added until now there 
are ten up-to-date laying and brooder houses 
actively in use. The trade of the Bushkill Farm 
covers a wide territory, Guillot Bros, shipping 
their product all over the eastern part of Penn- 
sylvania, and through the states of New York 
and New Jersey. They also ship eggs for table 
use to fancy grocers and private families in 
Philadelphia, New York, Newark, N. J., East 
Orange, and many other large nearby cities. 
With hatching eggs and chicks in large quan- 
tities many poultry farms are reached. During 
the summer season the Bushkill Poultry Farm 
is an interesting point for visitors from the 
cities who spend their vacation in this section. 
The splendid automobile roads, the proximity 
to the highway and the hamlet of Bushkill, 
within easy walking distance, center attention 
on Guillot Bros.' property. Their mail address 

yt TT-it »jj-.- . r- ■„ . d , Tj, ,_, -„t> w o and shipping point is Bushkill, Pike county, Pa. 

Upper Hill Addition to Guillot Bros.' Bushkill Poultry Farm rr D r 





54 



Music Lovers Appreciate the Advantages | 
Offered by The Stroudsburg Music Co. | 



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URCHASING the L'Hommedieu Music Co., on May 
9, 1911, F. F. Christine, manager of the Strouds- 
burg Music Co., remained in the Malta Temple 
Building, until in 1914 he removed the business to 
the present location, at 556 Main street, where the various 
departments can meet to better advantage the demands 
of a constantly growing patronage. The Stroudsburg Music 
Company carries an extensive stock of Piano Players and 
Pianos, including the Everett, Mathushek, Ivers & Pond, 
Laffargue, Vough, Mansfield, Harvard, Merrill, LaVerne, 
Regent and Biddle makes. 

The firm also deals in Victor Victrolas, Edison Disc 
machines, records and supplies, sheet music, souvenir 



factory, where he had charge of the tuning department. 
To the music lover in search of expert knowledge, Mr. 
Christine's experience is a welcome factor, as his ability 
to judge of the individual requirements of piano buyers is 
a valuable asset. 

Mr. Christine also was a prominent musician in the 
city of Easton for a number of years. He played bass in 
the Easton Band for fifteen years and was a member of 
the Easton Opera House Orchestra for nine years. In the 
year 1906, he and his brother, S. W. Christine, went to 
Bangor and bought out the old Werner Jewelry and Music 
House. After spending three years there, F. F. Christine 
came to Stroudsburg and bought out the L'Hommedieu 




Interior of Display and Salesrooms of the Stroudsburg Music Co., Stroudsburg, Pa., F. F. Christine, Manager 



articles, post cards, leather goods and latest books. Sewing 
machines, cameras and supplies are sold at this store, the 
trade extending over the entire county and neighboring 
territory. 

F. F. Christine, proprietor of the Stroudsburg Music 
Company, was a piano and organ maker for fifteen years, 
gaining experience in several factories, spending the last 
five years of that period in his career with the Needham 



Music Company, changing the name to the Stroudsburg 
Music Company. 

The tonal qualities and superior finish of the Mathushek 
Pianos have brought to this store trade from the leading 
artists of this section. The manufacturers of this high 
grade piano have — since moving their plant to New York 
City— greatly enlarged their facilities. Mr. Christine al- 
ways carries this make in stock in all the leading styles. 



55 



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At the 

Washington 

House 

in Stroudsburg 

Guests Feel at Home with 

the Popular Host 

Ed. Shafer 



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RIENDS of Ed. Shafer, 
the owner, manager and 
head greeter of the 
Washington House, 
Stroudsburg, Pa., say that he will 
live to an old age and come out 
smiling at all times, because his 
cradle stood in Pleasant Valley. 
The place of his birth has since 
been renamed Gilbert, but the 
change has not affected the ever 
pleasant countenance of this na- 
tive of Pennsylvania, whose whole 
bearing is that of the sound, but 
jovial, honest Pennsylvania Dutch. 
Mr. Shafer made his debut in 
this hustling world in February, 
1853, but retains the snap and 
ginger boasted of by the youngest 




The Washington House, Stroudsburg 




cafe is 
ments 



Ladies' Lobby — Entrance to Parlor at Right 
Entrance to General Office at Left 



Parlor and Writing Room at the Washington House 

A business men in the county. He 

came to Stroudsburg in 1868, serv- 
ing his apprenticeship in the hotel 
business under his father, Jacob K. 
Shafer, at the Indian Queen Hotel. 
In 1875, he and his brother, W. S. 
Shafer, joined forces in the man- 
agement of that house and con- 
tinued for three years, when his 
brother took the house alone, Ed. 
remaining with him, however, for 
years after. 

In 1899 the Washington House 
became the property of E. Shafer 
and has grown in popularity under 
his management. It is conducted 
on the American plan exclusively, 
at popular prices with excellent 
dining room service. A first-class 
in connection, where liquid refresh- 
are served in strictest compliance 
with all that self-imposed respect for fellow- 
men that makes for refinement. 

About 75 guests can be accommodated in 
the hotel and many of them are, so to speak, 
regular honor guests whenever they come 
to Stroudsburg, because they feel at home 
here. 

Mr. Shafer, in addition to taking a lively 
interest in the welfare of his community and 
his county, finds time to continue his con- 
nection with the Stroudsburg and Bushkill 
Telephone Co., whose active general mana- 
ger he has been since that company was 
organized in 1893. Mr. Shafer is also the 
active President of the Council of Strouds- 
burg and takes great interest in the public 
welfare of every movement that will be of 
benefit to this hustling town. He is one of 
the directors of the Monroe County Agri- 
cultural Society with which enterprise he 
has been identified for many years. In fact 
Mr. Shafer can always be found in the front 
rank of every movement to inprove his town. 



56 




The Plant of Thomas Kitson & Son, Inc., Commonly Known as the Stroudsbure Woolen Mills 

The KUson Standard ©f Quality in Woolen 

HAS GIVEN NATION-WIDE FAME TO STROUDSBURG AND MONROE COUNTY 



WHO has not heard or used the term "All wool and 
a yard wide," in connection with purchases of 
merchandise in the piece or made up? When 
Thomas Kitson, virtually the founder of the 
Stroudsburg 'Woolen Mills, secured employment in a mill 
at Leeds, Greene County, N. Y., he could not have had a 
conception of the strength and responsibility that was 
destined to be vested in the family name in the not far dis- 
tant future. Now, not only fellow citizens of the present 
head of the house, but business men throughout the coun- 
try swear by and for the reliability of the name "Kitson" as 
"All wool and a yard wide," it being in this case syno- 
nymous with "As good as his bond." 

In April, 1873, while at Thomaston, Conn., Thomas Kit- 
son formed a partnership with two others for the purpose 
of opening the Wallace Mills, at Stroudsburg, which were 
closed at that time. Serious loss was caused them in this 
enterprise by the panic of 1873, but undaunted, Mr. Kitson 
formed a new partnership with William Wallace, and they 
operated in the mill until 1883, when Mr. Wallace sold his 
interest to his partner. The growth of Thomas Kitson & 
Son, Inc.. commonly known as the Stroudsburg Woolen 
Mills, is best shown by initiating the reader into simple 
facts about the beginning under Mr. Kitson. Then the 
plant consisted of four looms, employing 13 hands. 

Today the plant occupies an area of three and one-half 
ncres, 35,000 square feet of floor space being devoted to the 
manufacturing departments, while separate storage and 
warehouses are located along the railroad. Sixty looms 
and 225 employees, nearly all male, with a payroll of about 
$90,000 a year, and an output of about 10,000 yards of ma- 
terial for men's and women's wear per week, varying 
according to the fineness of the fabric, is the present rec- 
ord of this company located in Stroudsburg, Pa. The plant 
was practically doubled in 1893, known as a panic year, 
while additional improvements made in 1904 have brought 
the capacity up to the present standard. Catering to the 
fancy woolen trade, in business circles recognized as the 
cutting trade, with special designs, patterns and mixtures, 
Thomas Kitson & Son, Inc., have won an extensive clientele 
l?rgely in New York State and in the Northwest. That the 
plant was able to fill recently orders for wool blankets re- 
quired by warring European nations is, however, eloquent 



testimony for the modern equipment installed to meet any 
demands. 

A trip to the mill for information about the process of 
manufacture naturally would lead the layman to the de- 
signing and pattern rooms first, for here the plans are laid 
for the production. Then he might visit the storage houses, 
where the raw wool and such of the fine cotton, as goes 
into mixtures of a certain class, are stored. Here also 
might perchance be found a large quantity of rags, from 
which the cotton is burned out, so to speak, by an acid 
process. From the dyehouse, where both the scouring and 
dying process takes place, to the drier with a heat of 220 
degrees, one must follow wool and rags to the picker 
house, where competent operators on special machinery 
prepare the material to get it fine enough for the carding 
machines. In the carding room the stranger is apt to let 
bis eyes linger on the seven sets of carding machines, three 
machines in a row to one set, for these produce the yarn 
soft enough for the spinning rooms, where machinery 
known as mules and jacks, each machine under a compe- 
tent man, does the work. Some of these mules carry as 
many as 55S bobbins. The spooling room sends the material 
to the dressing room, where the warps are made ready for 
the loom. To the casual eye it would hardly be noticeable 
that one warp may carry enough material for 500 yards of 
finished goods. Fifty yards a day per loom is the average 
man's work. Finished is hardly the proper term, for it is 
necessary to follow the goods to the fulling room, where 
in a shrinking process of two hours, the 72-inch cloth is re- 
duced to the normal width of 54 inches, insuring solidity of 
texture. The visitor will now reach another drying room 
to which the cloth is fed after leaving the fulling machines. 
Next comes the. napping machine, then the shearing mach- 
ine removing the nap. Steaming and pressing, measuring 
and folding is the final machine work, when another bolt is 
ready for the market. 

The officers of this enterprising Monroe County com- 
pany are: Thomas J. Kitson, President; Luther S. Hoff- 
man, of East Stroudsburg, Vice President; Frank B. 
Michaels, Secretary-Treasurer. With these on the Board 
of Directors are: N. C. Miller, M. D., William L. Andre, 
Charles R. Turn, all of Stroudsburg. and Charles Mervine. 
of Mount Pocono. They form a representative directorate. 



57 



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CE SUCCI 



OF THE 

STROUDSBURG & BUSHKILL 
TELEPHONE CO. 



of the<C^_ 

Strocidsbcirg $ Btisbkill 

TELEPHONE COMPANY 



1 — Indian Queen. 
2— A. B. Wyckoff. 



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_ ITH the granting of the first charter on November 
jflf 2, 1893, Governor Robt. E. Patterson, insured to 
Monroe County the Stroudsburg & Bushkill Tele- 
phone Co., an industry which was destined to be- 
come a vital factor in the upbuilding of this section. The 
first board included: Hon. E. P. Peters, Bushkill; Van C. 
Peters, Stroudsburg; Samuel G. Peters, Bushkill; Seeley 
Rosenkrans, East Stroudsburg; C. E. Van Allen, D. D., Echo 
Lake; Elias Huffman, Marshall's Creek, and Ed. Shafer, 




the company were re- 
built. This involved 
over $25,000. This was 
the first independent 
organization in this 
country to secure co- 
operative service with 
the American Tele- 
phone & Telegraph 
Co. under 
agreeme n t 
with Atty. 
Gen. Mc- 
R e y n olds, 
Insuring to 
all the sub- 
scribers of 
the Home 
Co. di r e c t 
c o nnection 
with the 
Bell system 
incl u d i n g 



Normal School (B) 



Dr. 

Bushkill (E) 



3 — KauU & Staples. 

4— RosenkranB (A) 
VanWhy (C.) 

6 — First National Bank. 

6 — G. G. Tilloteon's Residence. 

7.— East Stroudsburg National Bank. 

8-Marsholl's Creek (A) Van Allen's (B) 
Been (C) Jacob Place (D) 

9 — Dr. Brownell's office. 

10— Musselman & Custard (A) Nutt & Heller (B) 
11— -^-^0 J&s^' 
12— 

13— John M. Hill (A) Loder 4 Sons (B) 
14 — Weaver Bros. 
15— 

16 — James VanKirk 

17— Stroudsburg PasseDger Railway Office. 
18— United Stales Express Office (A) Kintz. 

Shoemaker & Co. (B) 
19- 

20— Silk Mill. 

21— D. L. & W Freight Office, 
22— Joseph Wallace 4 Sons (A). R, H. Kint- 

ner (B). 
23— H. W. Kistler & Co. (A). Coolbaugh & 
Co.(B). 



Notice-* T by Number - 



When there 
I more than one subscriber on a 
line order by Number end L«tter. 

Ed. Shafer. Supt. 



(Original List of Subscribers) 



Superintendent at Work at Test Table 

Stroudsburg. On Feb. 14, 1908, the Monroe Tele- 
phone Co. was incorporated with the Stroudsburg 
& Bushkill Telephone Co., the latter title being 
retained. 

Beginning with a capital of $800, the success- 
ful operation is now shown by a paid-in capital of 
$33,000. No dividends have been paid, the men 
connected with the board serving largely without 
salary. That Home Service was at all times in- 
tended to mean Best Service, is indicated in facts 
which may be set forth here tersely. The original 
list of subscribers is reproduced on this page. 
At present over 950 telephones are connected 
with the central exchange in Stroudsburg, where 
in February, 1913, a new home was acquired. 
Here a complete Common Battery outfit and the 
new switchboard, the Harmonic System of com- 
munication and a Test Table, enabling the super- 
intendent to locate troubles on the entire system 
within four feet of any cable and within a half 
mile of an open aerial location, were installed. 
At the same time new cables were run through 
Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg and the Water 
Gap. Practically speaking, the entire lines of 



also the Consolidated Telephone. Co.'s Keystone 
line, the Blue Mountain Tel. & Tel. Co., the 
Slate Belt Tel. & Tel. Co., and the Pohoqualine 
Tel. Co. This means universal service on one 
telephone. The present officers are: Hon. E. 
F. Peters, president; O. M. Posten, secretary; 
John S. Schoonover, treasurer; Ed. Shafer, gen- 
eral manager; Van C. Peters and Hon. W. A. 
Erdman complete the directorate. The com- 
pany now has twenty field and office employees 
on a total payroll of about $10,000 per annum. 




Switchboard at Stroudsburg Central Office 



58 




VIEW OF THE EAST STROUDSBURG GLASS COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF BOTTLES AND DEMIJOHNS 
Taken on the railroad frontage. The plant also has a frontage on North Courtland Street. 

The Evolution of a Glass Bottle 

As Seen at the Works of the 

East Stroudsburg Glass Company 



DURING the busy hours one may watch men con- 
stantly at work, preparing batch after batch of 
the ingredients that form the fundamental ele- 
ments for the production of bottles and demijohns 
to which the entire plant of the East Stroudsburg Glass 
Co., East Stroudsburg, Pa., is devoted. Three thousand 
pounds of crystal sand, drawn at present from Bridgeton, 
N. J., one-half ton of soda ash and one hundred and eighty- 
five pounds of rock ground lime are necessary for each 
batch, all of which and some times more is necessary to 
fill the giant furnaces. Three fills are possible in a work- 
ing day, and these are at times supplemented with a supply 
of broken glass, the latter eliminating the waste incident 
to many other industries. 

Each fill is brought to the melting point at a heat vary- 
ing from 2800 to 3000 degrees, pure oil and air compressors 
combined providing the necessary heat. The molten mass 
goes through sluice ways into a container at the far end of 
the furnace, where the glass blowers, with an apparatus 
resembling a pipe, withdraw it in suitable quantities and 
begin the shaping of the glass, preliminary to its entry 
into molds. Of these there may be found here all popular 
styles and sizes, some of the private molds for individual 
firms being unchangeable, while others are stock molds, 
easily changed for the impression of respective names by 
substituting one detachable name plate for another in the 
mold. 

Is the bottle ready when it leaves the mold? Hardly. 
No more is the demijohn. Each bottle is caught up in a 
special container of the respective size, called snap, and 
reheated in the glory hole for the application of finishing 
tools to the neck, which comes from the mold with some- 
what of a rough edge. This process enables the workman 
to put on either the ground finish, commonly used for bot- 
tles covered with metal caps, or the lightning finish, for 
rubber or cork tops. 

The seemingly finished product then undergoes the 
tempering process in the annealing lehr, resembling some- 
what of a furnace itself, where heat of 950 uegrees gives 
the really finished product the necessary resisting power. 
This tempering is brought about in large metal pans, one 



after another of which goes through this lehr on trucks, 
these being fed to the heat on one end and received cooled, 
ready for packing, at the other end. The East Stroudsburg 
Glass Company makes its own wood cases and crates for 
shipping the finished product from the works. 

The plant was originally started in 1877, by the late 
Milton Yetter and William Burrows and others as a limited 
partnership, which continued for two years, at which time 
Milton Yetter and William Burrows purchased the inter- 
ests of the other members. Upon the death of Mr. Burrows 
in April, 1897, Milton Yetter obtained control of his former 
partner's interest, and a corporation resulted in October, 
1897, with the following officers: Leopold Thomas, Presi- 
dent; Milton Yetter, Treasurer, and J. L. Singer, Secretary. 
Later Mr. Thomas resigned and Mr. Yetter held the office 
of president and treasurer until his death, which occurred 
in August, 1911. 

Charles H. Warman then became treasurer, and was 
assisted by Samuel A. Scott as factory manager. In Sep 
tember, 1913, M. Russell Yetter, a stockholder in the com- 
pany, purchased Mr. Warman's interest, effecting a re- 
organization with the following board of directors: M. 
Russell Yetter, President; S. A. Scott, Vice President; 
Hon. W. A. Erdman, Secretary and Treasurer; S. W. 
Schoonover and L. M. Schoch, Directors. Mr. Scott re- 
signed in January, 1914, and S. W. Schoonover was elected 
to fill the vacancy of Factory Manager, Mr. Schoonover's 
experience in the glass business, extending over 25 years, 
being a factor. Thus officered, the company looks to a 
permanent and bright future with hopes of doubling the 
capacity of the present plant, which now reaches thirty- 
five thousand gross of bottles of all kinds annually. The 
distribution of the output is far-reaching, extending as it 
does from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coasts, East and 
West, to Canada on the North and Cuba on the South. 

The importance of this industry to the prosperity of 
the home town may be judged from the fact that in raw 
materials alone, the East Stroudsburg Glass Company an- 
nually consumes 40 cars of sand. 4 cars of lime, 15 cars of 
soda, 60 cars of pure oil, 30 cars of cullet, 12 cars of lum- 
ber and 600 cords of fire-wood. This is a splendid showing. 



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TH: 



;a.<;t stiuxji.^uurg lumber 

HAS HELPED TO BUILD UP MONROE COUNTY 



OMING here from Smithfleld township, where he 
had been engaged in carpentering and building 
work, Hon. T. Y. Hoffman entered into a partner- 
ship with the late Chas. L. Rhodes, in 1887, the 

firm engaging in a limited way in the building supply line. 

The start was made with a little over $5,000 and one team. 

In 18SS, the 

East Strouds- 

burg Lumber 

Co., Ltd., was 

org a n i z e d, 

but the year 

following 

Luther S. 

Hoffman pur- 
chased the 

interest of C. 

L. Rhodes 

and entered 

into co-part- 
nership with 

his cousin. 

In 1911, the 

East Stroudsburg Lumber Co. was incorporated with 

Luther S. Hoffman, President; M. G. Nye, Secretary, and 

Hon. T. Y. Hoffman, Treasurer. 

From a small beginning the business has grown until 

it now requires four teams, four yard men, four office em- 




Mill and Glass Departments of the East Stroudsburs Lumber Company 
Extensive Lumbtr Yards at Extreme Left of This Sectional View 



ployees and 15 mill hands. In 1913 alone, the Company 
handled on the receiving end 240 car loads of lumber and 
building material. Aside from the large amount of mill 
work, the East Stroudsburg Lumber Co. deals extensively 
in lime, cement and patent wall boards. 'While their pro- 
ducts figure even in contracts in New York State, their 

principal bus- 
iness is con- 
fined to a ter- 
ritory includ- 
i n g Goulds- 
boro, on the 
North to Del- 
aware, N. J., 
on the South, 
and as far as 
D i n g m a n's 
Ferry in Pike 
County, to all 
parts of Mon- 
r o e County. 
For the East 
S t roudsburg 

State Normal School, the Malta and Masonic Temples in 
Stroudsburg, and the Masonic Temple in East Strouds- 
burg, and others this company has supplied a large part of 
the mill work. The pay roll reaches annually over $17,000, 
and speaks volumes for its effect on local prosperity. 



HIGH STANDARD WIMS A NATIONAL MARKET 

FOR THE PRODUCT OF THE POCONO HOSIERY MILLS, EAST STROUDSBURG 



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w_ OSIERY has brought fame to more than one city 
X 1 in the United States. The manufacture of hosiery 
has brought employment to large numbers in East 
Stroudsburg, where the Pocono Hosiery Co., with 
A. W. Kistler as secretary and treasurer, was organized 
in 1898. Five years later, in the spring of 1903, Charles 
S. Kistler bought an inter- 
est, the firm name being 
changed to that of A. W. 
Kistler & Bro., and con- 
tinuing in this manner for 
two years. 

A. W. Kistler then be- 
came sole owner and has 
since conducted the busi- 
ness as the Pocono Hos- 
iery Mills. The production 
of this plant has grown 
steadily from the original 
output of about fifty dozen 
per day to 400 dozen per 
day, a grand total of about 
5,000 pairs for every work- 
ing day. The product of 




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for export trade is also manufactured on special orders. 
At the present time the firm has a force of seventy-five 
employees and has plans ready for additions for twice 
that number, as fast as the necessary help can be secured. 
A modern plant, with plenty of light for every depart- 
ment, including the dye house, the latest machinery, sani- 
tary conditions and care- 
ful management insure the 
continued success of this 
manufacturing establish- 
ment. The present payroll 
of about $25,000 a year 
proves the value of this 
firm to the local interests. 
Carload lots of cartons 
may be seen here frequent 
ly, destined to carry the 
output throughout the. land 
and ultimately to the wear- 
er who thus becomes ac- 
quainted in an indirect 
manner with the fame of 
the Poconos through the 
"Pocono Mills" brand of 



PLANT OF POCONO HOSIERY MILLS 
Dye House in Foreground 

this mill has within recent years reached a high standard hosiery. Early in the county's history industrial enter- 
as to quality, dye and finish. prise was helped along by members of the Kistler family 
The "Pocono Mills" Brand of Stockings is now being whose name stands today as always for reliability. The 
sold to jobbers of every state in the Union. Hosiery same standard is being upheld by the Pocono Hosiery Mills. 



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The Stroudsburgs Have Reason to Feel Proud of 
The William A. Gilbert Co., Silk Throwsters 

AS AN INDUSTRY AFFECTING THE PROSPERITY OF MONROE COUNTY 



NAMED after the man behind the gun, The William 
A. Gilbert Company possesses a plant of which the 
Stroudsburgs may well be proud. This mill was 
started in 1886, under the firm name of John C. Ryle 
& Company, with Mr. Ryle and George G. Tillotson, of 
Paterson, N. J., as partners, 
and continued in this form un- 
til 1898. In December of that 
year, William A. Gilbert be- 
came interested and the firm 
name was changed to William 
A. Gilbert & Company. 

On the retirement of Mr. Til- 
lotson in 1901, The William A. 
Gilbert Co. was organized and 
became the owners of the prop- 
erty, their business as Silk 
Throwsters having reached a 
capacity of one hundred and 

forty employees with a mini- Rear View o£ Mill, Show 

mum of eighty employed at all times. It will prove of in- 
terest to indicate the capacity of this mill in another form, 
by the simple statement that 25,000 spindles are in opera- 
tion here. Occupying a large area near Brodhead's Creek, 
close to the State bridge, the original building was erected 




portant factor. The general manager, Mr. Gilbert, brought 
with him at the time of his entry into the business a suc- 
cessful record of twenty years' connection with the Atwood 
Machinery Co., Stonington, Conn., builders of silk mill 
machinery. In fact the equipment of The William A. Gil- 
bert Co. was sold to the orig- 
inal owners of this plant, J. C. 
Ryle & Co., by Mr. Gilbert, who 
always took a personal interest 
in the erection of machinery 
sold by him for the Atwood 
people. The secretary of the 
company, Mr. Hunt, came here 
from New London, Conn., and 
took his apprenticeship in the 
Gilbert silk mill, growing right 
into and familiar with every 
branch of the business. 

It is possibly due to this per- 
ing Silk Vault at Right sonal equation in the manage- 

ment that The William A. Gilbert Co. secures easily 2V2C 
to 12c per pound more than the average market price 
offered to silk throwsters. One is tempted to believe that 
high price in their case stands for high standard. Mr. 
Gilbert has the distinction of having landed at least one 





Front View of The William A. Gilbert Co.'s Plant, East Stroudsburg 



at a cost of $35,000, to which must be added over $100,000 
worth of modern machinery, standardized in the name At- 
wood, well known in the silk throwing machinery line. 
Powerful engines, one of 300 horse power, furnish the mo- 
tive power. 

The output goes to other mills and finds its market in 
the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 
The present officers are: Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer, presi- 
dent; A. G. B. Hunt, vice president and secretary; William 
A. Gilbert, treasurer and general manager. 

In the achievement of this company toward success the 
personal element must be reckoned with as the most im- 



large customer through the facetious greeting extended 
to him by another customer in New York City one day in 
this manner: "Hello, you high-priced throwster." Com- 
ing, as did this remark, from a raw silk dealer whose clan 
may be designated as expert on quality, the pleasantry 
must have been doubly welcome on this occasion, when a 
new prospect overheard it. The Gilbert plant can convert, 
when running full time and force, 17,000 pounds of raw silk 
per month and handles only the consignments of its clients. 
The business of the company is entirely done with the 
trade, the plant throwing no silk for its own account, 
a fact that is fully appreciated by their regular customers. 



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Broad Silks 

Form the Output of the 

FELLOWS- 

HUBER 
COMPANY 

EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. 



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Whose Business Prospers Here 



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INCORPORATED on November 25, 1912, with an author- 
ized capital of $75,000, the Fellows-Huber Co. organi- 
zed on December 1, of the same year, with the following 
officers: H. B. Drake, 
president; F. W. 
Grant, vice president; 
A. C. Huber, general 
superintendent, and 
C. L. Fellows, general 
manager, seer e t a r y 
and treasurer. The 
erection of a building 
of modern mill con- 
struction, equipped 
with automatic sprink- 
ler system and other 
fire fighting apparatus, 
was immediately be- 
gun. 

Machinery of the 
best and most im- 
proved makes was in- 
stalled and is being 
operated by separate motors 




Exterior of Fellows-Huber Silk Mill. Offices and Shipping Department in Center Wing 



This equipment includes 
Sipp Winders and Warpers, Universal Quillers, Compton 
& Knowles Looms, and the American Moistening System 




Weaving Department. Main Floor. A Like Department, 
Is Maintained on the Second Floor 



Fully Equipped 

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Warping, Winding and Quilling Department, Main Floor 

of Humidifying. The mill is now operating ninety-six broad 
silk looms, space being provided for forty-eight additional 
looms and the company is steadily taking up this space. 

Eighty emplo y e e s 
participate in the pro- 
duction of ten thou- 
sand yards of dress 
silks weekly, a record 
which has been estab- 
lished since opera- 
tions were commenced 
in April, 1913, upon 
the completion of the 
plant. The output 
goes to commission 
merchants, but the 
business as a whole 
materially affects, in 
a beneficial way, the 
progress of Monroe 
County and East 
Stroudsburg as a man- 
ufacturing center. 
A payroll of about $50,000 per year indicates in round 
figures the value of this plant to the community and the 
magnitude of their business at large. The company's plant 

adjoins on the East front the trackage of the 

D. L. & W. Railroad, the area west of it allow- 
ing for future expansion. The floor space of 
the present plant totals over 22,000 square feet. 
Here the raw material, which in this mill is 
confined to Italian and Japanese silks, is re- 
ceived in skeins. These go through the pro- 
cess of winding, followed by warping or get- 
ting a certain number of threads into certain 
lengths before they reach the harness which 
is strapped into the loom before the weav- 
ing begins. The finished product goes to the 
dyeworks, subject to the buyers' orders. 
Great care is exercised in the purchases, made 
by this firm from raw silk dealers, to secure 
compliance with requirements regarding cer- 
tain chops (or brands they might be called) 
of raw silk. Frequently a conditioning house 
examines either whole lots or even ten skeins 
of each bale for elasticity, strength, evenness 
of thread, touch, lustre and sizings. 

The Fellows-Huber Co.'s success may safely 
be ascribed to good management. 



HOW BEST TO INSCRIBE IN 
MONROE COUNTY'S ANNALS 
OF HISTORY THE FORWARD 
MARCH OF EAST STROUDSBURG 

By J. ANSON SINGER, M. D., President of the East Stroudsburg Board of Trade 





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SOBER thought and careful research prove that 
East Stroudsburg owes much to the name of 
"Drinker." It was Henry Drinker, perhaps more 
than any other man, who nearly one hundred 
years ago, blazing with an ax a route 
from the mouth of the Lackawanna, 
now Pittston, through the unbroken for- 
ests, across the lofty Pocono Mountains 
to the Delaware Water Gap, a distance 
of sixty miles, satisfied himself that rail 
communication between the Delaware 
and Susquehanna Valleys offered untold 
advantages. While it took several de- 
cades to organize a logical traffic road, 
still Drinker's efforts were indirectly 
responsible for the bringing into exist- 
ence of East Stroudsburg. The first at- 
tempt to establish railway communica- 
tion was made in 1826, when the charter 
for the Susquehanna Canal and Railroad 
company was granted. But not until 
the "Lackawanna and Western" and a 
branch known as "The Delaware and 
Cobb's Gap Railroad Company" came 
into existence in and along the early 
fifties was real life assured for East 
Stroudsburg. 




first officials: I. T. Puterbaugh, Burgess; C. E. Durfee, M. 
L. Hutchinson, A. W. Loder, S. P. Smith and W. N. Peters, 
as members of the first Council. The land forming the 
site of the Borough originally belonged to Daniel Brod- 
head, and consisted of six hundred and 
forty acres. In 1856 the first railroad 
station was erected at the head of what 
is now Washington street, but in 1864, 
a new station and freight house were 
erected on Crystal street, to meet the 
necessities of increased population and 
business. 

The first Justice of the Peace elected 
after the organization of the Borough 
was M. L. Hutchinson, who at this writ- 
ing is still among the old residents of 
the community. Among the early busi- 
ness men must be counted Alexander 
W. Loder, who erected, in 1868, the 
building later owned by Dr. Lesh, in 
which he carried on a mercantile busi- 
ness for three years. With the organi- 
zation of East Stroudsburg as an in- 
corporated community there came many 
others. The name of the late Stephen 



The Late Mayor Frank Smiley Kistler must, however, go down in his- 

Honored in Life and in Death tory as an industrial factor with the 

Many of the early settlers were descendants of those erection of a tannery in 1869. John Burt also built a brew- 

who had faced the rigors and hardships of pioneer life in ery in 1867, for the production of ale and porter. The 

Stroud township, some even as far back as the period enlarged Elk Horn Tannery dates back to the name of 



preceding the erection of 
this township on the 22ud 
of January, 1817. To enu- 
merate each and every one 
singly, would require space 
far beyond the limits of that 
which I take as appropriate 
for a brief, but comprehen- 
sive, sketch which is to 
serve in telling to the aver- 
age reader not only the past 
growth of the community, 
but also "How best to in- 
scribe in Monroe County's 
annals of history the for- 
ward march of East Strouds- 
burg." 

To the rapid growth of 
the town after the comple- 
tion of the railroad, must be 
ascribed the application for 
a charter as an independent 
borough and the incorpora- 
tion as such, by the Court, 
on May 23, 1870. Providing 
for the first election at the 
public house known then, as now, as the Analomink House, 
the following were duly chosen on June 11, 1870, as the 




Masonic Temple, Washington Street at Courtland, East StroudsburR 



Kistler, as today a large 
bottling concern dates back 
to the name of Burt. So 
that two manufacturing in- 
terests outlive the transi- 
tory stage from the town- 
ship of Stroud to the incor 
poratTon of East Strouds- 
burg. The name Loder also 
successfully passed this 
transition period. The store 
of Thomas Stemple, erected 
in 1863, located opposite 
what is now the East 
Stroudsburg National Bank 
Building, has passed out of 
existence, although the 
property is still owned by 
his son, Jay Stemple. Stores, 
previously kept by Peter 
Terpeening and Col. John 
Nyce, are also extinct, ex- 
cept on the records of his- 
tory. 

The marvelous growth of 
the community is best shown 
by pointing out the accession of one industry after another, 
in the splendid showing of attractive homes, modern build- 



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ings for the traveler and the resort guests, houses of wor- 
ship to meet the requirements of a growing population of 
varied beliefs, in fact, prosperity which is in evidence 
everywhere. We point with pride to a fire department 
which has won records throughout the state and remains 
a factor to induce the sleep of the just among those who 
make their home here or who have their commercial and 
industrial establishments located within the boundaries of 
East Stroudsburg. The local government is in the hands 
of citizens who aim to serve the community for the best 
interests of all concerned and improvements have been 
pushed forward here as rapidly as conditions have justified 
each step. Our police system, although fortunately limited, 
has met the requirements 
of competent guardians of 
the peace. That East 
Stroudsburg has the dis- 
tinction of being a principal 
stopping point between 
Scranton, Pa., and Hobo- 
ken, N. J., for through trains 
of the Delaware, Lackawan- 
na & Western Railroad 
speaks for the traffic which 
emanates from this station, 
where also the Pennsylva- 
nia Railroad and the Dela- 
ware Valley Railway inter- 
change traffic. 

If I may be permitted to 
say so, the ghost which 
sleepeth not is the growing 
friendship with our sister 
community and county seat, 
Stroudsburg. It is my be- 
lief that the showing made by the citizens of East Strouds- 
burg in this edition will more than justify the belief that 
nothing can take away from the glories which our com- 
munity has already earned. Nor is it possible to lead the 
sane booster astray by telling him that anything will ever 
stop the forward march of that part of Monroe County 
which is now known as East Stroudsburg. As I look at 
the connecting link between our town and Stroudsburg, 
in the form of the State Bridge, I am wondering how far 
off the date will be when our sister community, Strouds- 
burg, will match our own efforts and help make of the two 
towns one united whole to be known under her own name, 



but without disparaging the showing which we have made 
and without burdening us unjustly in the effort of making 
of the two one City which shall prosper and grow as one 
of the foremost communities of this great Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania. 

There are those who claim that such a union would 
tend to depreciate the standing of our section of the town, 
because it might lead to the hastening of that day, when 
the Lackawanna Railroad Company might be tempted to 
move its station to the disadvantage of East Stroudsburg. 
I defy any man to prove to me that there is any logical 
reason, even in the removal of the present station, to take 
it out of that part of Monroe County which is now circum- 
scribed by the boundary 
lines of East Stroudsburg. 
To my mind, there can be 
but one solution in the fu- 
ture for the problem which, 
in a forward march, may 
confront the Lackawanna 
Railroad, and that solution 
would be most likely in an 
Eastern direction, perhaps 
slightly Southeast, but with- 
in the limits of the Borough 
of East Stroudsburg. 

Even with such a removal 
there remains only con- 
tinued prosperity for what 
is now the heart of our com- 
munity. In the city of Chi- 
cago, in a district which for 
years had depreciated in 
value, the Chicago & North- 
western built a new and 
magnificent station structure, and has helped to increase 
the prospects of future property values in its immediate 
vicinity, while not anywhere depreciating existing values. 
In the city of Minneapolis, the same company has helped 
to increase values in a much neglected district by the 
erection of a new station structure, but away from the 
station property values also have continued to increase. 
When the city of San Francisco, before the days of the 
great fire, pointed with pride to the new ferry structure 
which immediately gave a new impetus to its own imme- 
diate vicinity, there was no depreciation of property values 
in other sections of the community. It cannot be charged 




Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, East Stroudsburg 
Rev. J. S. Kistler, Pastor 










Acme Hose Company, No. I, East Stroudsburg's Prize Winning Fire Fighters 

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that Scranton property values have fallen since the D., 
L. & W. Railroad put up its modern railway station, simply 
because realty in the immediate neighborhood of the depot 
has been considerably enhanced in value. Stroudsburg 
has the station of that branch of the Erie Railroad, known 
as the New York, Susquehanna & Western, and can but 
benefit even by the erection of a new Lackawanra depot 
in East Stroudsburg, other than in its present location. 
, We can safely say that 
we have some things which 
physically do not burden 
our community, nor do we 
fail to recognize that ad- 
vancement in this communi- 
ty has gone too far forward 
to be stolen bodily even by 
the adoption on our part of 
our family name without 
the "East" attached to it. 
But I may safely claim that 
East Stroudsburg can sin 
gle out Lord Byron's fa 
rnous saying. 

"With all that Demosthe- 
nes wanted, endowed, 
and his rival or master in 

all he possessed," 
and assert that a greater 
Stroud sburg would rival 
Demosthenes, not in ora- 
tory, but in speaking for it- 
self as a factor to be reck- 
oned with much more ex- 
tensively in the annals of 
the future history of Mon- 
roe County. And such a 
Stroudsburg is easily possi- 
ble, if our sister community 
will take steps without 
jealousy, but in brotherly 




First Presbyterian Church, East Stroudsburg 
Rev. Karl L. von Krug, Pastor 



throughout his life. He served as school director for nine 
years, was a director of the East Stroudsburg National 
Bank for two years preceding his death, was elected 
Burgess on November 6, 1913, and passed into the great 
beyond on November 1, 1914, honored in life and in death. 
Robert H. Ace was appointed to fill out the unexpired 
term of the late Mr. Smiley. District Attorney Ira A. La 
Bar is Borough Solicitor; C. P. Smith is Chief of the Fire 

Department; W. A. Hughes 
is Assistant Chief; Joseph 
Evans and Daniel Stemple 
are Justices of the Peace; 
Forgie C. Fish is High 
Constable, and Amos Mil- 
ler is Constable. 

The members of the 
Board of Health are: Carl 
Brown, W. E. Brown, David 
Carlton, Francis Transue, 
and Oscar Imbt. E. G. 
Williams is Health Officer. 
Joseph Seiple and W. A. 
Hughes are Overseers of 
the Poor. 

The Borough Improve- 
ment Association is an or- 
ganization of women, de- 
voted to a cause deserving 
the co-operation of all. 

It must be remembered 
that — while the public in- 
terests are properly look- 
ed after by public officials 
and organizations aiming 
to serve the common in- 
terest — in East Strouds- 
burg each and every citi- 
zen aims to be a commit- 
tee of one, ever ready to 
labor in behalf of pro- 



love, to lead to a union which shall bring greater pros- 
perity to us both, but leave untampered that which is 
already possessed by prosperous East Stroudsburg. 

The present officers of this municipality are: Robert 
11. Ace. Mayor; W. E. Van Vllet, President of Council; 
M. L. Bach, W. K. Deubler, Lewis \Y. Lehman, Louis 
Rupprecht, Frank 'Walters, T. 
J. Moyer, Councilmen; Charles 
McDonough. Secretary; L. W. 
Lehman, Treasurer; It a A. La 
Bar. Attorney; F. C. Fisii, Chief 
of Police; C. S. Van Why, Water 
Superintendent and Street 
Ccmmissioner; E. H. Bruch, 
Tax Collector. 

East Stroudsburg lost in the 
late Mayor Frank Smiley one 
of the representai ive men. Mr. 
Smiley was born on November 
G, 1854. in Stroudsburg. receiv- 
ing his education in the schools 
i.i that borough. At the age of 
nine he became a water boy on 
the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Railroad, a brakeman 
five years later. At eighteen 




St. 



gress. This is a community of boosters who believe in 
their town and in everything that helps all of Monroe 
County. We believe in service, one and all, and are not 
afraid to speak out, even though we may disagree on some 
topics. We realize that the dark horse is liable to hurt 
more than the one in the open daylight. And acting on 

this belief, we strive to serve 
the whole community — a n d 
therefore the county — by a free 
discussion of any undertaking. 
If East Stroudsburg has come 
to be recognized as a live wire 
municipality, it must be as- 
cribed to the hearty coopera- 
tion of all citizens in every for- 
ward movement, and I confi- 
dently express the opinion that 
"The Bells" furnish ample evi- 
dence for the truth of this 
statement. There are no dead 
ones in East Stroudsburg. In 
the name of Mayor Robert H. 
Ace, I extend to all strangers 
— who want proof — the band 
of welcome to Monroe County's 
hustling and growing town. 



Matthews Roman Catholic Church, East Stroudsburg 
Rev. Francis Craft, Rector 

ho was a conductor, and at thirty-two he was promoted to The key to this prosperous and prospering community car- 

the position of yardmaster, serving in that capacity for ries with it due appreciation of the newcomer's presence 

twenty-eight years. Soon after his schooling he removed and assurance that his stay will be made pleasant in 

to East Stroudsburg and has been a respected citizen East Stroudsburg, "Where Industry and Recreation Meet." 



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A DECADE OF PROSPERITY AND SATISFACTION 




Rings True of The Keystone Building and Loan Association 

of East Stroudsburg 
as a Home Builder in Monroe County 




UTUAL benefit was the keynote of the first 
effort in Building and Loan organization. 
Since then there has been added the greater 
benefit of upbuilding a community by en- 
abling the individual home builder to secure 
the best possible structure through one complete invest- 
ment. Thousands of happy homes throughout the Union 
stand today as monuments to the enterprise of citizens 
who by organization aided not only themselves, but others 
with a loan plan which alone made possible the realization 
of a real home, otherwise either deferred or unattainable. 
On a charter, granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania on March 1, 1904, the Keystone Building and Loan 
Association of East Stroudsburg was organized with the 
present set of officers and direc 
tors except Lewis C. McFall, who 
was elected to succeed the late 
Irvin W. Smith. Without friction 
the work has thus progressed 
through a period of ten years for 
the benefit of many. The result 
is best shown in the simple state- 
ment of fact that about two hun- 
dred loans have been placed since 
the association began to do busi- 
ness on May 1, 1914. 

For the benefit of those who are 
not acquainted with the working 
plan of such an organization, it is 
well to state that the Keystone 
Building and Loan Association 
places at the disposal of intending 
home purchasers or builders the 
sum necessary to meet individual 
requirements. Unlike an invest- 
ment in the ordinary corporation, 
which places the responsibility of 
proving up on the stock purchased 
upon possibilities of the business, each shareholder, or 
investor if you please, in a building and loan association 
becomes a guarantor of his investment. This places the 
responsibility of success not merely upon the officers and 
directors, but upon each and every member, a method 
which insures by mutual protection not only greater mutual 
benefit, but also greater individual returns on the original 
investment. 

This elimination of chance, together with the selection 
of officers and directors whose integrity is unquestioned 
and whose repeated re-election vouches for their ability 
to successfully protect the interests of all, has brought 
about an increased business of cooperative benefit to many 
through the good judgment of a few. Thus the Keystone 
Building and Loan Association takes an important place 
in the upbuilding of Monroe County by making possible 
a greater number of good homes throughout this section 
on the mutual small payment plan without the usual risks 




"Man, through all ages of revolving time, 
Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 
Deems his own land of every land the pride 
Belov'd of heaven o'er all the world beside : 
His home, the spot of earth supremely blest, 
A dearer, sweeter spot than all tlie rest." 



to the investor. The plan is simple and worthy of investi- 
gation by those who want to build their home in prosperous 
Monroe County, where pretty homes abound. 

The last financial statement, issued by this organization, 
shows not only a healthy growth in one decade, but proves 
beyond doubt that without a single setback the original 
plans have succeeded. About January next the first series 
of the Keystone Building and Loan Association shares will 
mature, insuring the payment of all monies to holders of free 
stock in that series and the cancellation of all first series 
loans. This fact alone is something to be proud of. But 
the real cause for pride among officers and directors who 
have handled the affairs of the association, as well as 
among the citizens at large, is found in the creditable 
statement that not a single loan 
has failed to do its duty. In other 
words, foresight, justice and fair 
play have been combined in the 
efforts of the directorate to create 
a community of interests between 
borrower and organization which 
has prevented loss in every case, 
yet has safeguarded even the in- 
terests of individual borrowers 
without embarrassment to the as- 
sociation as a whole. 

The officers and directors of this 
association are: H. B. Drake, 
president; W. H. Jacques, vice- 
president; M. S. Kistler, secretary; 
I. A. Gardner, treasurer; A. R. 
Brittain, conveyancer; with W. C. 
Drake, L. C. McFall. Abram 
Albert, Dr. J. Anson Singer, and 
F. J. Kistler. As a building and 
loan association has functions 
affecting the welfare of communi- 
ties at large, it is not amiss to 
mention in detail the connection of individual directors 
with other interests. 

H. B. Drake, the president, is also head of the East 
Stroudsburg National Bank and president of the L. D. 
Sopher Co., a local wholesale grocery house. W. H. 
Jacques, though no longer in active business, is classed 
among the safely conservative citizens. M. S. Kistler, 
secretary, is the reliable cashier of the East Stroudsburg 
National Bank. I. A. Gardner, the treasurer, for years 
held a responsible position with the D., L. & W. Railroad, 
but is now retired. A. R. Brittain is a well known attor- 
ney. W. C. Drake is a local hardware merchant. Lewis 
C. McFall is a member of the firm of McFall & Warne, 
dealers in general merchandise. Abram Albert is also 
retired, but his experience is valuable to the association. 
Dr. Singer is the active president of the local Board of 
Trade and a medical practitioner of standing. F. J. Kistler 
is a respected citizen and the head of F. J. Kistler & Sons. 



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4RTER OF A CENTUR 



F SUCCESSFUL BANKING f ,SS9 

VV 1915 \f/ 



This Is the Record of the East Stroudsburg National Bank " ,a ^x L ^,4* 



# 




RGANIZED in 18S9 under the National Bank 
ing laws, the East Stroudsburg National Bank 
began to do business on May 6th, of the 
same year. The growth of the business since 
that date has been steady, gaining for this 
bank consistent influence, strength and the 
confidence of the people. It is said that the 
financial institutions of a community reflect 
the character and progressiveness of her people. Just so 
do the earnings of a bank reflect the policy of a bank. 

The officers and directors of the East Stroudsburg 
National Bank points with pride to the fact that every pre- 
caution is taken at all times to invest its funds in securi- 
ties and bonds of unquestionable safety. With a manage- 
ment able to cope with every problem presenting itself 
in progressive, but safe banking, this bank has not only 
won an enviable position in its home town, but the approval 
of many throughout Monroe County and the Delaware 
Valley. 

Quartered in its own premises, rebuilt in 1912, the 
bank is fortunate in the possession of a structure reflecting 
credit upon the whole community, while providing for each 
and every department ample room. The massive vault is 
fire, burglar and water proof, and is constructed with heavy 
reinforced concrete walls and lined throughout with plates 
of drill-proof chrome steel. The entire equipment is the 
embodiment of the latest and most modern features of 
vault construction. 

The Savings Department is an important factor, three 



per cent, interest being paid on deposits. An account may 
be opened with one dollar. In addition to the usual func- 
tions of a national bank, i. e., issuing currency, receiving 
deposits, collecting checks, drafts and notes, making loans 
on approved security, the East Stroudsburg National Bank 
issues Travelers' Letters of Credit and Travelers' Checks, 
payable in every country in the civilized world. Safe De- 
posit Boxes may also be rented by individuals, at the 
nominal rental of $1.00 and upwards per year. Securities, 
deeds and other valuables of any description may be stored 
with this bank. 

Women who look upon banking as a business necessity 
find it a distinct pleasure here, where every convenience 
and accommodation is provided for the women patrons. 
A special room is placed at their disposal. 

Resources of over $700,000 — including the banking 
house, conservatively valued at $35,000 — a wide knowledge 
of business conditions, mature judgment, integrity and 
experience of the officers and directors insure to this bank 
continued prosperity and to its depositors security that 
is unquestionable. 

The officers are: H. B. Drake, president; F. J. Kistler. 
vice president; S. T. Detrick, secretary; M. S. Kistler, 
cashier; H. B. Bush, teller, and Hon. Harvey Huffman, 
solicitor. The Board of Directors includes, in addition 
to the president, vice president and secretary, Messrs. 
Theo. Ott, Portland; J. A. Seguine, Cresco; T. M. Lynch, 
Tobyhanna; D. D. Drake, Water Gap; W. E. Van Vliet, East 
Stroudsburg, and C. F. Gravle, Jr., Pocono Lake, Pa. 




MASSIVE BURGLAR AND FIREPROOF VAULT OF THE EAST STROUDSBURG NATIONAL BANK— TRIPLE TIAIE LOCK DOOR OPEN 



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Tfae East Slioudsbiuiirg Stale norma 

AS A FACTOR IN SPREADING THE FAME OF MONROE COUNTY 



THE East Stroudsburg State Nor- ^^ ^\ pus contains twenty-three acres, and ad- 

mal School has reached its / ;\ joining plots of ground also belong to 

majority. Its twenty-first class / \ the school. The grounds also have been 

was graduated in June of the past / \ improved until they are among the most 

year. It has justified its existence and / \ beautiful in the State, and besides the 

realized the most ardent hopes of its / \ first building there are on the grounds 

founders. It has won for itself an envia- / jA a large gymnasium, a fine and adequate 

ble position among the Normal Schools / ^■^Sk, **flfe. ! recitation building, an imposing and 

of the State. mW ' 7l8Pi well-planned Model School, and a well 

More than two thousand graduates w^L \ H equipped heating and electric light 

have left its halls. In addition to these IMSBP'* \ plant. 

many other students have completed ^^B The internal growth of the school has 
special courses preparatory to entering B been as satisfactory as the external, 
colleges or universities. The remarka- \ «H ' ' .. B/ The facilities for laboratory work have 
bly successful lives of the alumni are \ AMw _|> i WSj been increased and multiplied, and the 
a constant source of satisfaction to the \ ^^BJ / , new departments demanded by the re- 
trustees and faculty and other warm \^AM A / vised course of study well provided for. 
friends and supporters of the school. ^B BuBB ^ ^ Mi B^ The equipmeoit for manual training and 
They are making themselves useful in ^B Wf MB domestic science and art are excellent, 
responsible positions all over our coun- ^BJ Jf± Ms B^ and a large school garden has been de- 
try, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in ^ s ^^8_j^B^^^ veloped on the campus in aid in making 
Porto Rica, Cuba, Mexico, the Canal E L KEMP Fc D LITT D the teaching of horticulture and agricul- 
Zone, the Sandwich and Philippine Isl- Principal East Stroudsburg State Normal School ture as practical as possible, 
ands, in Great Britain and in China and Japan. The state course of study has for years been accepted 
In many ways they attest their loyalty to their Alma as a minimum requirement. The work in different depart- 



Mater. They are the school's most active agents, and are 
constantly sending additions to its student body. Recently 
they contributed a large sum of money for the erection of 
a beautiful entrance to the campus, and there are now on 
interest eleven hundred dollars donated by them towards 



ments of pedagogy especially has been much extended and 
intensified, and provisions has been made to enable stu- 
dents to specialize and increase their requirements as much 
as time will allow. In consequence, the teacher graduates 
are notable in quality and are remarkably successful. 



■9 




* 



ENTRANCE TO CAMPUS OF EAST STROUDSBURG STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 



the placing of a handsome fountain on the campus. 

The history of the school has been the story of steady 
progress. At first there was one building located on a plot 
of eleven acres given for the purpose by a citizen of East 
Stroudsburg, Mr. Albert Knapp. To the original property 
additions have been made by purchase until now the cam- 



They rank among the best. The trustees now are: Seeley 
Rosenkrans, Frank J. Kistler, J. Anson Singer, Chas. H. 
Warman, John F. Henry, Frank B. Michaels, Patrick Culla- 
ther, John M. Wyckoff, M. Russell Yetter, of East Strouds- 
burg; B. F. Morey, William B. Eilenberger, of Stroudsburg; 
Fred Eilenberger, of North Water Gap; W. B. Holmes, of 



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Honesdale; Geo. F. Davies, of Lansford; James J. Powell 
of Scranton; Will F. Maguire, of Plains; and George M. 
Harlernan, of South Bethlehem. They are active and capa- 
ble business managers of the school, and are thoroughly 
devoted to its interests. A large percentage of them par- 
ticipated in its founding, and have borne their full share 
of the burdens and the struggles incident to Its growth. 
The capable officers of the board are: Dr. J. Anson 
Singer, President; Dr. John F. Henry, Vice President; Mr. 
Seeley Rosenkrans, Secretary. 

The faculty is strong. Without exception they have 
received their higher training in colleges and universities, 
or the equivalent in special schools. One member of the 
faculty. Dr. D. W. LaRue, has for several years taught 
psychology and pedagogy in the summer school of Har- 
vard University; and another, Miss Elizabeth Kurtz, teach- 
er of geography and geology, has taught for several years 
in the summer school of Columbia University. 



the building sadly defective in construction. With unflinch- 
ing courage the local champions persisted in their efforts. 
Mr. Oakes talked Normal School in season and out of sea- 
son, the Hon. R. F. Schwartz made a magnificent fight for 
recognition in the Legislature, and Mr. Milton Yetter and 
Mr. George E. Stauffer, when the treasury was empty, en- 
dorsed the notes of the trustees, sometimes to the amount 
of $15,000. The local men triumphed. Not only the town. 
but the whole county owes them a debt of gratitude. 

The school has been very fortunate in the selection of 
men to head the board of trustees. The first president was 
Mr. Seeley Rosenkrans. He was elected because of his 
interest in education, his business ability, and because from 
the beginning of the movement, he was actively allied with 
the strongest workers for the school. After serving one 
year he gave way to Judge John B. Storm, but afterwards 
was again elected to fill the office. Mr. RosenKrans has 
given more time and thought to the management of the 




Entrance to and Partial View of Administration Building, East Stroudsburg State Normal School 



The principal has been with the school from the begin- 
ning, nine years as vice principal, during the principalship 
of Prof. Geo. P. Bible. He is the author of two text-books; 
one a history of education widely used in Normal Schools 
and Universities, and the other a book on methods, now in 
the hands of the publishers. 

The school is a monument to the vision, energy, and 
pluck of its founders. The man of vision was Rev. Chand- 
ler Oakes. then pastor of the local Presbyterian church. 
He was a man gifted with persuasive eloquence and an 
indomitable pioneer spirit He could and did inspire others 
with enthusiasm akin to his own. 

It was not established without a struggle. VYhile the 
stock sales were being pushed and the first building was in 
process of erection, a number of prominent men in Scran- 
ton conceived the idea of having the school located there, 
and made a determined effort to win it away from East 
Stroudsburg. Friends of this movement declared the loca- 
tion here poorly adapted to the needs of the district and 



Fchool than any other man who has been connected with 
the board. His activity has not ceased with the advancing 
years of his service. 

Judge John B. Storm, the second president of the board, 
was at the time the most prominent man in the county 
and one of its most cultured citizens. He filled the. office 
for several years. The other men, who with equal ability 
and zeal filled the office, were Judge. T. Y. Hoffman, Mr. 
Milton Yetter, and Mr. B. F. Morey. The latter voluntarily 
dropped out because of his health to make room for the 
present incumbent. Dr. J. Anson Singer. Two of the ex- 
presidents have passed away — Judge John B. Storm and 
Mr. Milton Yetter. Mr. Yetter held the office of president 
longer than any other man. He held the majority of the 
stock and during the time he held the office, he made the 
school peculiarly his own. His great business ability and 
his foresight were of great service to the school. He 
took the lead in all of the marked steps in its develop- 
ment. 



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The Davidson Camp and School for Boys 



in. 



vi.ilii'o iVl o iiMaiiig 




IN the front rank of our institutions for the 
benefit of the young stands the Davidson 
School and Camp. It has for its motto the 
trinity of — 

PHYSICAL STRENGTH 
MENTAL, EFFICIENCY 
MORAL EXCELLENCE. 
Judiciously combining the benefits of the 
home with the advantages of the school, the 
Davidson Institute has since its establishment 
in 1900 exercised influences of inestimable value 
over all the boys who during the summer sea- 
sons have been entrusted to its care. 

While everything is being done in the form 
of sports to develop the strength and to further 
the growth of the young, yet equally full con- 
sideration is being paid to their mental advance- 
ment, protecting their minds from becoming Coolbaugh Lake. Bathing and Boating Under Reasonable Supervision 

rusty through vacation idleness and to equip them with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and with the Pennsyl 
necessary means to render their school work during the vania Railroads, thus rendering it easily accessible to all 
winter season easy and agreeable. Fully realizing that all parts of the country. By special arrangement the Davidson 
education, physical as Camp and School now 

well as mental, must T~ : ; 7^1 handles its own mail, 

serve yet a higher &trj*i using East Strouds- 

purpose, special care M$, burs as its post office - 

is taken to endow the ^j^ltf The fine summer re- 

young students, by ^?.J& afe. ifft . | sort near, »'' called 

precept and example, ^^^^^m^^^^^hmk- ..^ Ml feg JL Coolbaugh College Inn, 

with those fine traits has proven a varitable 

which make for con- boon of delight and 

duct and character. ^^^^'f^f^'^^'w^f^ Tfl: " '"''^(f^^f'f* recreation for the par- 

The success of the ^J ents and friends of the 

Institute during the students. 

past years justly pres- The respect coin- 

ages an ever growing manded by Dr. David- 

success in the future. son and his institution 

It is gratifying to re- in the home county is 

cc.nl I lie liberal spiril |. . . ■ . ... . .. ■■ J a strung testimonial 

pervading the School for the high character 

and Camp. There are Exercise Before Breakfast Is the Foundation of Healthy Appetite o£ wor lc carried on by 

no religious barriers for teachers or students. The only him. Improvements are constantly being made on the 
criterion is mental and moral fitness. The principal never premises to maintain the standard of equipment and con- 
allowed himself to gain financial success by an 
indiscriminate number of pupils. Any appli- 
cant, under suspicion of being tainted, is rigidly 
denied admittance. 

Dr. David Davidson is well known in the 
country as a scholar and educator, having been 
for a number of years a member of the faculty 
of The Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, O., 
whose graduates fill the most prominent pulpits 
in the United States. As regards the climatic 
conditions, indeed, any superlative expression 
would not be exaggerated. The whole Blue 
Ridge Mountain Section is famous for its beau- 
ty and healthfulness; and Dr. Davidson was es- 
pecially fortunate in establishing his camp in 
the finest region on the spur of the Blue Moun 
tain. Comprising an area of over 300 acres, hav- 
ing its own dairy and poultry yard, it forms with 
lake and hills one of the finest estates in Mon- 
roe county. The Delaware Valley Railroad, having a station 
on the School Grounds, connects the Institute with the 




The School and Tents— Camp Life Causes No Brain Fag 

veniences, looked for by an increasing number of pupils 
whose attendance at the School benefits the whole county. 



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I 



4 ENERGETIC POLICY HAS PLACED 
THE MONROE COUNTY NATIONAL 
BANK IN THE SAFE AND SOUND CLASS 

■ =3 EARLY IN ITS HISTORY » =3 



* — ■ 



_ . _ ITH its required capital over-sub- 
\flf scribed to the extent of $17,000— 
so that the total authorized stock 
reached $42,000— the Monroe Coun- 
ty National Bank, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., 
began business on October 22, 1900, under 
favorable auspices. Then the youngest of 
the county's financial institutions, it quickly 
gained an enviable position in its chosen 
field. A few years' activities necessitated 
larger and better facilities, causing the ac- 
quisition of the property on Crystal Street, 
opposite the D., L. & \V. station, where a 
new and massive building was erected, its 
doors being opened to the public on August 
30, 1906. 

Here the entire equipment, including the 
vaults, were of the latest construction, the 
bank's quarters being commodious and light, 
safe deposit boxes at a popular rental also 

being provided. 




HON. 



T. Y. HOFFMAN 
President 



Six years of 
progress, unprecedented in 
the country's history, had 
brought the baby bank of 
Monroe County another dis- 
tinction, the deposits on Sep- 
tember 14, 1906, showing a 
total of $320,755.32, as against 
$62,835.80 in 1901. 

Another innovation, brought 
about by this active banking 
institution, was the payment 
of interest on 
savings which 
resulted in a 
change of policy 
among all banks 
for the benefit 
of Monroe Coun- 
ty depos i t o r s, 
who thereafter annually found themselves 
about $40,000 richer in consequence. That 
the Monroe County National Bank was able, 
before Christmas, 1908, to declare its first 
dividend and at the same time announce a 
total surplus of $50,000, equal in amount to 
the capital, proves that the management 
was not only aggressive, but had safeguard- 
ed the bank's resources and deposits from 
tha start. 

Now in its fifteenth year, the Monroe 
County National Bank has constantly added 
to its prestige among the people. Us de- 
posits have grown to a total of about 
$700,000, while its resources approximate 




JOHN S. SCHOONOVER 
Vice-President 




The Home of the 

Monroe County National Bank 

East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



the handsome total of $800,000. This is 
proof sufficient that the youngest national 
bank in the county stands with its friends 
united, as an important factor in the local 
business world. 

The officers are: Hon. T. Y. Hoffman, 
President; John S. Schoonover, Vice-Presi- 
dent; J. N. Gish, Cashier; V. M. Reynolds, 
Teller, and Hon. W. A. Erdman, Attorney. 
The directorate includes, in addition to the 
president and vice-president, the following: 
O. Zimmerman, of North Water Gap; N. S. 
Brittain, Sr., of Tobyhanna; Phillip Ruster, 
R. W. Reynolds, Frank Brown, Win. H. Loder, 
and Peter Lesoine, of East Stroudsburg, Pa. 
The Foreign Exchange Department of 
this bank meets every requirement of those 
who make remittances to foreign countries 
or who in their travels seek convenient iden- 
tification means, coupled with safety in the 
carrying of needed funds. The 
securities of this institution 
include high-class Railroad. 
Municipal and Industrial 
Bonds, not readily influenced 
by fluctuations in the market 
and by virtue of the recog- 
nized standing of the corpora- 
tions represented acknowl- 
edged to be safe first and 
dividend-paying at all times. 
In one other direction must 
credit be given 
to the manage- 
ment of the 
Monroe County 
National Bank. 
Believing that 
the upbuilding 
of local indus- 
tries will redound to the benefit of all, it has 
also come to the aid of this section, in which 
its interests are centered, by stimulating 
the production of better fruits. Two years ago 
this bank inaugurated its first "Apple Show," 
and so successful was the effort in its re- 
sults for the good of all that last year's show 
attracted a still greater number of ex- 
hibitors, while the prizes offered by the bank 
covered a wider range. Thus interest in 
the productivity of the soil of this region is 
being developed and additional investments 
in this section are being encouraged by 
proof positive, found in the exhibits annually 
made in the banking rooms of this bank. 




JOHN N. GISH 
Cashier 



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A, EngcThardl's Success as Electrical 
Contractor Extends Beyond Monioe County 

A BOUT 22 years prac- 
■"■ tical experience in 
his line is the basis upon 
which at this time the 
record of achievement of 
A. Engelhardt holds out 
a still brighter future for 
him. He came to Strouds- 
burg in 1902, after five 
years' service with the 
General Electric Co., at 
Schenectady, N. Y., and 
took charge of the in- 
stalling and maintaining 
of the electric signal sys- 
tem on the D., L. & W. 
Railroad's Scranton divi- 
sion. Nearly five years 
later he started in con- 
tracting work at the 
county seat and in 1909 
removed to East Strouds- 
burg, where he is now 
located in his own build- 
ing at 209-211 Crystal St. 
Mr. Englehardt's success is easily shown by the num- 
ber of larger contracts which he has executed in and out 
of Monroe County, among them being the Stroud Theatre, 
Indian Queen Hotel, Flagler Building with the Newberry 
store, A. B. Wyckoff building, all in Stroudsburg; the Hotel 
Fenner, Masonic Temple, The Daylight Store and building, 
Hartman Bros, new building, Fellows-Huber Silk Mill, in 
East Stroudsburg, and many other larger structures in 
both the Stroudsburgs, Delaware Water Gap, Portland, 
Belvidere, Newton, and many other New Jersey towns. 
He is practical in every branch of the electrical business. 
In civic and fraternal life Mr. Engelhardt is always 
active in behalf of the causes that serve the best interests 
of all. He is a member of the East Stroudsburg Board of 
Trade, and is always a boomer for his town and county. 



The Firm of Kistler iz Sons Upholds 

the Splendid Roc or J of an Honored Name 




A. Engelhardt 




•\T7HEN in 1881, F. J. and A. W. Kistler purchased M. M. 
*V Kistler's stock of merchandise, they formed a co- 
partnership under the firm name of Kistler Bros. During 
the year 1890 they dissolved, A. W. Kistler retaining the 
stock at Bartonsville. In East Stroudsburg the business 
was continued by F. J. Kistler until July, 1894, when A. 
W. returned from Bartonsville. The business was con- 
tinued until 1907, when it was changed to F. J. Kistler & 
Sons, including F. J. Kistler, M. S. Kistler and L. S. Kistler. 



VV. A. 



His 



i Satisfied! Im the Art ©f 
stablishraient Photography T. X Knox H 



TWENTY years' residence in the community, fourteen 
of which were spent in the service of one firm in his 
line, entitles W. A. Hughes to recognition as a business 
man who believes in sticking close to home. With some 
previous grocery experience to back him, he came here 
about 20 years ago from Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Hughes has 
made good, as is shown in the satisfied patronage given to 
his store since he opened a business under his own name 




Interior of W. A. Huehes' Grocery Store 

on April 14, 1914. His equipment is absolutely modern and 
a complete line of groceries and all that is usually found in 
such a store with automobile delivery insure prompt service. 
Aside from the owner, who gives his personal attention 
to the business, Chief Clerk James Bunnell has had ten 
years' experience. Earl Hughes is also a popular clerk. 




DOMING here from 
*-' Scranton in April, 
1913, T. J. Knox opened 
the studio formerly oper- 
ated by Mr. Doolittle, at 
92 Washington Street 
With a thorough knowl- 
edge of the art of por- 
trait and commercial 
photography, acq u i r e d 
during 20 years practical 
experience, Mr. Knox 
has built up a successful 
business. He also does 
enlarging, Kodak devel- 
opment, water color and 
crayon work, and during 
the summer season re- 
ceives a large share of 
the Kodak work of visi- 
tors. Prompt service at 
prices, considered rea- 
sonable for assured qual- 
ity, has been his step- 
ping stone to success. 

At the Knox Studio may be seen the portraits of quite 
a number of the foremost citizens of Monroe County, 
whose approval of his work resulted in orders. Here 
also may be found excellent group photographs, includ- 
ing flashlights, of large organizations whose members 
recognized the merit of his work. In outdoor photography 
the samples of the work, done by Mr. Knox, include some 
of the largest buildings throughout the county and fine 
homes. 

T. J. Knox points to some of the striking photographs, 
both portraits and commercial, made by him for this edi- 
tion of "The Bells," not only as a boost for Monroe Coun- 
ty, but also for the quality of his work. Mr. Knox is con- 
templating additional equipment for the growing demand. 



T. J. Knox 



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oard of Trade o: 



EXTENDS AN INVITATION TO ALL STRANGERS LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY 
TO RESIDE OR DO BUSINESS WITHIN THE GATES OF A LIVE COMMUNITY 

By LUTHER S. HOFFMAN, Vice-President East Stroudsburg Board of Trade 



L>IFE at best may be a problem. But East Strouds- 
burg citizens have tried to make that problem's 
solution an easier, as well as a pleasanter task 
i&JUi than is frequently found in communities whose 
greatest achievements are still in the making. Much or 
the credit of giving a new impetus and a greater spirit of 
enterprise to the already prospering 
town must be ascribed to the far-sight- 
edness of Dr. J. Anson Singer who, in 
the fall of 1909, secured the co-operation 
of other citizens and brought about the 
organization of the East Stroudsburg 
Board of Trade. That he was honored 
with the presidency of the new body 
speaks well for the appreciation of his 
work by the members. That he has 
remained at the head of the organiza- 
tion ever since is evidence of the ap- 
proval bestowed upon his labors by a 
trade body. 

With Dr. Singer, President; H. B. 
Drake, Vice President; Luther S. Hoff- 
man, Second Vice President; Chauncey 
Schoch, Recording Secretary, and S. L. 
Mosier, Financial Secretary and Treas- 
urer, entered upon the duties of first 
officers of the Board. Later the machin- 
ery was altered to suit requirements, 
the body deciding upon the abolition 
of the second vice president's office, and 
adopting the simpler titles of secretary 
and treasurer respectively for other officers. In 1911 
Herbert Bush was elected treasurer and in 1912 Ernest 
Younkins became secretary, while in the same year Luther 
S. Hoffman stepped into his present office. 

The accomplished results of the whole body's efforts 
are best shown in a few simple statements of fact. 




J. Anson Singer, M. D., President 



Crafters; The Fellows-Huber Co., silk manufacturers; The 
New York Piano Stool & Manufacturing Co.; The Cam- 
eron Engineering Co., and Geo. C. Hughes, then the owner 
of the Jeffersonian and who later started also a daily 
here — The Morning Press. Since Mr. Hughes sold the 
paper, he has opened up an independent job and book 
printing plant, becoming indirectly 
and directly responsible for the main- 
tenance of two new enterprises in this 
community. In the removal to or the 
starting of these enterprises in East 
Stroudsburg, the Board of Trade has 
done its best to meet the requirements 
of the newcomers. Lately the Board has 
succeeded in bringing the Holtite Cap 
Manufacturing Co. here. The Home 
Laundry is a new factor in local indus- 
trial life, through the Board's efforts. 
Improved express service, the secur- 
ing of a town clock, a public drinking 
fountain for horses, street improve- 
ments, must also be counted as a trib- 
ute to the energies of the Board, even 
when, as in the case of street better- 
ment, the Board simply stimulated or 
supported the efforts of individuals or 
public officials. The efforts of Com- 
pany G, Monroe County's crack body 
of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, 
in the erection of their armory, were 
appropriately encouraged by this Board. 
The last Annual Banquet of the Board, held at The Maple- 
hurst, when Gov. Tener and his staff were invited guests, 
as well as the members of the Stroudsburg Industrial 
Club, must go down in history as an unparalelled success 
for Monroe County's enterprising trade body, the East 
Stroudsburg Board of Trade, whose officers and members 






Ernest Younkins Secretarv 



Through the activity of the Board, East Stroudsburg 
secured a number of prospering manufacturing establish- 
ments, including a branch of the Whitall, Tatum & Co.'s 
glass factory, employing about seventy people, whose com- 
ing here necessitated arrangements for a change of a 
railroad crossing; the Brown Furniture Co.; The Metal 



Luther s. Hoffman, Vice-President Herbert Bush, Treasurer 

extend a hearty welcome to all seekers after pastures new. 
Here may be found the soil and the fellowship, suited to 
the advancement of individual interests, good schools, 
excellent banking and railroad facilities, ideal manufactur- 
ing and home sites, cheap electric power, churches, and 
an altitude that places life much above the ordinary level. 



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TiM', noTi<:i, !'i:mner ; at east stroud 



IS MONROE COUNTY'S LEADING COMMERCIAL HOTEL 



EAST STROUDSBURG is fortunate in having in the 
heart of the town Monroe County's leading commer- 
cial hotel under the personal management of W. H. 
Gibbs. The Holel Fenner is appreciated by the people at 
borne, as much as 
by the traveling 
public. This mod- 
ern building of lat- 
est constru c t i o n, 
with elevator ser- 
vice, forty commod- 
ious guest rooms, 
a large sample 
room, tel e p h o n e 
and running water 
in every room, is 
the pride of all. 
The Fenner is reg- 
istered as an Offi- 
cial Blue Book Ho- 
tel, is conducted on 
the American plan 
at popular prices, 
ranging from $2.00 
per day up, has a 
number of rooms 
with private baths 
attached, an unex- 
celled cafe service, 
where only the best 
liquid refreshments 




are to be had, and a spacious dining room. Vapor and 
Vacumm heat provide comfort at all times. Located 
within a block of the Lackawanna station, the Hotel Fen- 
ner is convenient for travelers who arrive late or depart 

early. Prompt 
laundry service is 
the latest feature 
of this hotel. W. 
H. Gibbs, to his 
friends better 
known as "Bill" 
Gibbs, took charge 
of the house on 
February 1, 1912, 
having had first- 
class hotel experi- 
ence for a number 
of years. 

The Hotel Fen- 
ner dining room 
service appeals to 
every commercial 
traveler, while the 
location affords 
easy access to the 
merchants of both 
Stroudsburgs. Mr. 
Gibbs has conduct- 
ed hotels in many 
other places with 
marked success. 



HITESELL'S CAFE THE LACKAWANNA HOUSE 

EAST STROUDSBURG, HOLDS A SATISFACTORY PATRONAGE 

WITH its dining room service, popular bar and good 
rooming facilities, the Lackawanna House, under the 
management of F. J. Crockenberg, succeeds in holding the 
patronage given it, while winning new friends all the time. 



EAST STROUDSBURG, SPECIALIZES IN SEA FOOD 

LADIES, as well as gentlemen, appreciate the service at 
Whitesell's Cafe, opposite the Lackawanna Station, now 
in its fifth year under the same management. Oysters and 
clams, direct from the beds, deviled and soft crabs, lob- 




ster, etc., in season, are served in refined surroundings. 
The best of Imported Beers, Wines, Liquors, Cigars, etc., 
are on sale. A la carte service at all hours until midnight 
is a convenience that is appreciated by the traveling public. 



The prices are popular and the management is well known 
throughout this section. Transient patronage finds it con- 
veniently located, directly opposite the Lackawanna Sta- 
tion. Personal service is made a feature. The cafe con- 
nected is well stocked with the best liquors, wines, cigars. 



C. L. Wallace, Hardware Merchant, Is 

the Most Enterprising of East Stroudsburg's Dealers 
+ _._.._. _.. + 

WITH an experience of thirteen years in the hardware 
business, gained under his father, C. L. Wallace suc- 
ceeded H. E. Frankenfield, of East Stroudsburg, on Sep- 
tember 21, 1914. The store, located at the corner of Wash- 
ington and Courtland Streets, carries a full line of build- 



McFall & Warne Have Built a Good 

General Merchandise Business in East Stroudsburg 




ers' and general hardware. Mr. Wallace specializes in 
sporting goods. His enterprise has brought him recogni- 
tion as an energetic merchant from his townsmen, and ! s 
also bringing him a constantly increasing patronage from 
people throughout the county and adjoining territory. 



ECURELY intrenched in the confidence of the 
people of Monroe County, the firm of McFall 
& Warne looks back to a splendid record, since 
the store was started in March, 1892, with H. B. 
Drake and Lewis C. McFall as partners. At that time the 
firm name was Drake & McFall, the senior member of the 
firm selling his interest to W. W. Warne in 1908. Mr. 
Warne had ben in the employ of the firm previous for ten 
years to that date. Since then the partnership has been 
continued under the present name. 

Mr. McFall originally came to East Stroudsburg from 
Martin's Creek. Mr. Warne came here in 1888 and was in 
the service of another local grocery house for ten years 
before he went with Drake & McFall. As a consequence 
both members of this firm are favorably known through- 
the county. 

They carry on a General Merchandise business, includ- 
ing a full line of Fancy Groceries, a Shoe and Dry Goods 
department. In the grocery department McFall &. Warce 
specialize in the "Olney" line of Fancy Canned Goods, 
known for their high standard of quality. Besides a large 
line of Ladies' Shoes, they carry the celebrated "Packard" 
Shoes for men. As a result of close attention to business 
on the part of the management, this store's activities have 
brought about an expansion to about four times its original 
size. The business has been conducted in the same loca- 
tion for twenty-one years. The owners are active mem- 
bers of the Board of Trade. Mr. McFall is a director 
in the Keystone B. & L. Association, while Mr. Warne 
held the office of Borough Auditor for a number of years. 



* 



Wm. A. Meyers Is Rapidly Building Sampson Bros. Believe that "Cleanliness 



an Extensive Furniture Business in East Stroudsburg 

' " ■»— ■■— ••^••^••^ll^ll^— •■— M^ai^ll^ll^Nt^M.^11— II lift 



_ _ OST men would hesitate to engage in a business, 
JV1 °f which they had little inside knowledge. Wm. 
A. Meyers, of East Stroudsburg, was the exception 
when he bought out the furniture department 
of Snover Bros, on December 10, 1911. With faith in him- 
self and his ability to make good on the basis of "Full 
Value For the Money," he set about to convince the public 
that it pays to "Buy of Meyers." 

How well he has succeeded, is best evidenced by the 
fact that his store handles the well-known line of "Globe- 
Wernicke" Sectional Bookcases and the popular "Hoosier" 
Kitchen Cabinets. To secure the agency for such widely 
advertised furniture, a furniture dealer must be able to 
give the manufacturer an assurance of a certain amount of 
business annually. The mere fact that Mr. Meyers is able 
to meet these requirements indicate that his business war- 
rants going after the best lines and drawing new trade with 
them. 

A general line of Furniture, Rugs, Carpets, Matting, 
Mattresses and Pillows, etc., makes up the stock which is 
carried in a modern store, on Washington Street, adjoin- 
ing the East Stroudsburg National Bank. Picture Framing 
is also done here. All goods bought by customers in the 
Stroudsburgs or nearby places, are delivered by Mr. Meyers. 

Wm. A. Meyers has a faithful assistant in his son, 
Arthur, who is also the window trimmer for the Sim. The 
junior Air. Meyers is an artist in displaying goods to ad- 
vantage. Good business judgment has brought success. His 
motto is: "Service and Quality First, Satisfaction Always." 



Is Next to Godliness" in a Modern Meat Market 

AMONG the live wires of Monroe County must be count- 
ed the firm of Sampson Bros. Their meat market is 
modern, the management active. Only the best of meats, 
game, poultry and provisions are handled. The owneis 
are Chas. Sampson, who was formerly with the Childs 




grocery, Phillipsburg, N. J., and Geo. Sampson, who was in 
the employ of a local meat firm for ten years. The busi- 
ness was started just a little over two years ago. The 
market is located at 33 Crystal Street, East Stroudsburg. 



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C. W. Smiley Has Achieved Marked Success 

THROUGH GOOD SERVICE, GAINING POPULARITY AS "SMILEY, THE GROCER." 



i 

■4 



AFTER eighteen years' service with one grocery house 
in East Stroudsburg, C. W. Smiley began to do busi 
ness under his own name, in 1910, in the heart of East 




Interior View of - C. W. Smiley's Grocery Store 



Stroudsburg. Being a native, he was fully equipped to 
meet the demands of the people whose needs he had pre- 
viously studied. Backed by a reputation for honesty, 
which is inherent in the family, Mr. Smiley 
easily won a patronage worth catering to. The 
stock includes a full line of groceries, canned 
goods, green goods — the reliable kind — fruits, 
and all kinds of cakes, bread, etc. 

Two deliveries a day have given to ' Smiley, 
The Grocer," as Mr. Smiley is popularly known, 
the reputation of having one of the best de- 
livery systems in the community. As he is 
devoting his business entirely to town trade, 
this convenience is appreciated by local pa- 
trons who frequently fill in their needs by 
telephone — either Bell or Local System — or in 
passing the store during the day. 

Considering the fact that this store is but 
little over four years young, the reputation for 
satisfactory service gained from the beginning 
is a notable record. As Mr. Smiley is constant- 
ly on duty, the personal service feature largely 
enters into the success of this merchant. Em 
ployees, naturally are inspired by such an em- 
ployer. The old and the new friends who have 
given their patronage to this store show their 
appreciation of good treatment received from 
the popular merchant, "Smiley, The Grocer." 



In Salathe & Rohrbacker's Modern Market 

EAST STROUDSBURG HAS ONE OF MONROE COUNTY'S LEADING ESTABLISHMENTS 



+ 



WAYNE County's loss 
was Monroe County's 
gain, when in 1900 the firm 
of Salathe & Rohrbacker es- 
tablished a business in East 
Stroudsburg. Their success 
was assured from the start 
on account of their knowl- 
edge of the line in which 
they engaged. In 1913 the 
firm met the demands of a 
constantly growing trade by 
moving into premises which 
had been entirely rebuilt on 
modern lines. They handle 
meats, poultry, game, canned 
goods, butter and eggs of 
first quality only. The refrig- 
erating department speaks 
for itself and for the magni- 
tude of their business as well. 
Their own stock farm, one 
mile northwest of town, sets 
the standard for high-grade 
requirements. The firm con- 
sists of W. E. Salathe, L. F. 
Salathe and M. A. Roll) back- 
er, every member giving his 
entire time to the business. 




The Modern Refrigerating Department at Salathe & Rohrbacker's 

76 



More Than a Half Century of Merchandising 

At the "Busy Corner" 



10 KOCOTi 



v, W., I .odor c v -: >Sons, Kasi: ' '>i:mi.i.< ]•; 




Main Floor Store Front of Loder's, Showing: Improvements Contemplated 



SUCCESS marked the early efforts of A. W. Loder, 
who started in business in East Stroudsburg in 
186S. The opening of new quarters in the present 
location in 1872 was a high water mark for mer- 
cantile establishments of that day, the Loder store being 
the oldest. The business grew under the careful man- 
agement of its founder, until in 1891 the demands of in- 
creased patronage brought about the entry of two sons, 
V'nton S. and William H. Loder, as partners under the firm 
name of A. W. Loder & Sons. After A. W. Loder's death 
in 1903, this name was retained. 

Several additions have been made to the store since 
it was founded. Still greater and more extensive im- 
provements are contemplated in the near future. At 
present the firm occupies three store rooms and the floor 
above with an extensive line of general merchandise, in- 
cluding staple Dry Goods and Notions. A high-class and 
varied line of Groceries has brought to this house pa- 
tronage from the best families. The store has the exclusive 
agency for Jelke's Good Luck "Butterine," "White Sponge 
Flour," and "Russell-Spaulding" Baked Goods. Loder's 
also have an agency for DuPont Powder and Dynamite 
for general blasting and farm purposes. 

The Shoe Department is a feature of this store, the 
agency of the world-renowned "Regal" and "La France" 
shoes adding distinction to the several other lines of 
leading makes of footwear carried in stock. Loder's also 
have a general line of Hardware, a large line of Wallpaper, 
and give special attention to Garden Seeds. Their knowl- 
edge in the latter line has given them a reputation which 
brings people from all parts of the county and adjoining 
counties to their store for garden seeds. 

Special attention is also called to their Art Needle- 
work and Embroidery Department, and their agencies for 
"Standard Patterns," "Holeproof" and "Black Cat" Hosiery. 



The extensive business done by this firm has given 
their location favorable renown as the "Busy Corner." 
This has resulted in making their well known brand 
"Busy Corner" After Dinner Coffee probably one of the 
most popular articles handled in the store, the coffee 
having gained more than a local reputation. 

Loder's Delivery Service is unexcelled, a large auto 
truck covering the East End of the county and part of 
Pike. Three delivery wagons and one automobile take 
care of the town trade. 

With a training received from early manhood in the 
business founded by their father, the present owuers are 
fully equipped to meet the demands of a steadily growing 
trade. Having devoted their lives to the upbuilding of 
this store on the "Loder" reputation, for which the founder 
worked with untiring zeal, their patrons have come to rely 
unhesitatingly on the word of Vincent S. and William H. 
Loder. The spirit of service in behalf of the customers 
also is instilled in the clerks who are instructed to please. 

The history of the Loder family name is as honored as 
the reputation of the Loder store, which is solidly built 
on honest principles. When on August 29, 1901, A. W. 
Loder celebrated the anniversary of his golden wedding 
at his home, surrounded by his children and grand-chil- 
dren, he could look back on an unbroken chain of success, 
as well as cast his glance upon an unbroken family cir- 
c'.e. Fifty years without a death in the family, combined 
with fifty years — without a business setback — was a record 
of which this pioneer merchant could well be proud, as lie 
stood with his wife under the floral bell, bearing the figures 
"50" in gold on this anniversary. 

With the plans for store improvements well under way, 
the family name will in its new chapter win new laurels 
for A. W. Loder & Sons' Greater Department Store. Show 
windows will be put in to meet the lowered floor level. 



77 



MONROE COUNTY'S POPULAR NEWSPAPER 



p^Tl THE MORNING PRESS 



BROKE, HARRY 
MILLER HANGS 
SELF JO TREE 

Unable to Pay Bill, Conscientious i)ay- 

lorsburg Man Committea Suicide 

By Hanging to Apple Tree 







AMONG the newspapers of Monroe County the youngest 
publication is known as The Morning Press. It is now 
in its second year, but recognized by all as a lusty young- 
ster. The pub- 
lisher, Karl L. 
von Krug, pur- 
chased this pa- 
per, as well as 
the East Strouds- 
burg Press and 
Jetfersonian, on 
Oct. 15, 1913. 
Continuing the 
Daily as an in- 
dependent pub- 
lication, he has 
aimed high as 
to standard, be- 
lieving that a 
fearless publica- 
tion, decently 
edited, would 
hold the place 
it had won from 
the start in 
many Monroe 
County homes, 
and also in neigh- 
boring territory. Looking first of all to the proper hand- 
ling of local, or, properly speaking, Monroe County news, 
The Morning Press gives careful and prompt attention to 



THE WEATHUt 



TEMPERANCE DAY OBSERVED 
IN MANY LOCAL CHURCHES 



THE CAREER OF A 
GREAT AND GOOD MAN 

Born Nnrrmbcr 6. ISM. to Straudibut,. Pe. 

Roceirrd UiiiiM el Slroudrburi School*. 

Al All Dl Nu» Buma Willi Bd; hi D.L1W.R.R. 

Bnksun el Aj. of FvuftHD. 

Conductor ■> Ai. of Euhlean. 

Yeidmuler •! Ala of Tturlr-lwtj. 

C00.omti0u.l7 HcU PoeiUoo (or T-.nl T-tiiM Youi. 

Nevrr lo a Raitmd AtcJrnL 
School Director For NL» Veen. 

Director of the Cart Stroud.buri Nelioul Buk (or Two 
Yeer. Preceduii Deolh. 

Beetec! Chit! Bunoi, No.tc.ber 8, l»l). 



ALL Ml TAMMANY 
IS IN FLAMES AS 
THOUSANDS WATCH 

Slate Fire Warden William Lioslef, of DoTer, 
and Scores of Mm' ate Fijhlinj Flamts 



Chief Burgess Smiley 
Dies Suddenly at His 
Home, of Apoplexy 




all important general items in concise form. This policy 
has won for it a pleased list of subscribers who are prov- 
ing their faith in the paper which comes to their homes in 

town and coun- 
try on the first 
delivery by re- 
newing their 
s u b s c r lptions 
promptly. 

The rural sub- 
scribers are es- 
pecially pleased 
on account of 
the service which 
brings to them 
The Morning 
Press on the 
same day it is 
printed. This 
fact has made 
Monroe County's 
morning daily 
newspaper the 
power it is in 
town and a great 
part of the coun- 
ty, assura n c e s 
being given that 
the scope of the growing circulation will be met by ex- 
tension in service that shall keep step with all other de- 
partments. Mr. von Krug will meet all requirements. 



Y.M.C.A. BOYS ATTENDED 
SPECIAL RALLY DA Y SERVICES 



HARTMAN BROTHERS, LEADING PLUMBERS 

the success of C. fitters' Supplies, besides doing a general Heating and Saui- 
firm of Hartman tary Plumbing business. In addition, they do all work in 
with T. J. Moyer the tinning and roofing branches. Their ability to meet 

all requirements has brought 



DEVOTION to business brought about 
B. Hartman, senior member of the 
Bros., who started on December 12, 1904, 
as a partner. The firm was 
then known as Moyer & Hart- 
man. Doing a general plumb- 
ing, steam fitting and heating 
business, they continued the 
partnership until Septmber 5, 
1914, when Jacob Hartman, Jr., 
bought out Moyer's interest 
and the firm name was changed 
to Hartman Bros. From the 
small beginning, which neces- 
sitated only the labors of the 
two partners, the firm's activi- 
ties have grown until now they 
give employment to 14 men. 

This growth forced enlarge- 
ment of quarters to facilitate 
the handling of the business. 
In May, 1914, the old firm of 
Moyer & Hartman decided to 
meet this issue by erecting a 
new building on their old site. 
It is a modern three-story 
structure, with showroom, of- 
fice and tinning department on 
the main floor, and plumbing 
department and storage room 
in the basement. 

Hartman Bros, carry a full 
line of Plumbers' and Steam- 




Hartman Bros.' New Building 

78 



the firm many large contracts 
on varied construction work, 
each completed order reflecting 
credit upon the Arm's reputa- 
tion. 

C. B. Hartman, popularly 
known as "Charlie" Hartman, 
has made many friends, not 
only in his home town, East 
Stroudsburg, where the busi- 
ness of Hartman Bros, is lo- 
cated on North Courtland St., 
but throughout the county. He 
takes an active interest in gen- 
eral affairs of the community 
and believes in the future of 
Monroe and her neighbor Pike. 
Jacob Hartman, Jr., the junior 
member of the firm, is rapidly 
gaining friends. This firm has 
done important jobs, including 
the Masonic Temple. Also the 
residences of T. P. Rhodes and 
Dr. C. B. Rosenkrans, in East 
Stroudsburg; Lutheran parson- 
age, Stroudsburg; Hawthorne 
Inn, Mt. Pocono; Water Gap 
House, Sciota and Snydersville 
Hotels, and many others jobs. 



FIVE YEARS IN THE PlA 

HAVE BROUGHT SUCCESS TO MRS. J. H. LANTERMAN 



WITH an experience of 
about twelve years 
to aid her, Mrs. J. 

H. Lanternian was 

well equipped when 
she began to do business in 
East Stroudsburg five years 
ago. Realizing that in the 
selling of pianos the standard 
of the makers would reflect 
favorably upon her own ef- 
forts, she decided upou the 
Packard pianos first, because 
in her previous acquaintance 
with the policy of its makers 
and the tonal qualities of the 
instrument there had come 
an assurance that the Pack- 
ard was second to none. In 
addition to this recognized 
line, Mrs. Lanternian special- 
ized in the popular Lehr 
pianos, and also became rep- 
resentative of the Bond, Doll 
and Wellsmore pianos, finding 
in her rapidly growing clien- 
tele a demand for all these 
makes. 

Adding one year ago a com- 
plete talking machine depart- 
ment, Mrs. Lanterman has 
succeeded in building up a 
very prosperous business in 
this line also by cariying a 

large stock of Columbia and Victor records and all styles 
of machines. That the achievement of this house is due 
to the policy, adopted at the start, of fair dealing, equal 




Interior of Mrs. J. H. Lanterman's Piano and Talking Machine Store, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



;hr high-gr 



DELIGHT THE MUSICAL PEOPLE 

THE musical superiority which has won recognition 
throughout the country for LEHR Pianos and 
Players, has also given these instruments the 
highest standing in Stroudsburg and adjoining 
territory, for which section Mrs. J. H. Lanterman, 
of East Stroudsburg, has been the successful representa- 
tive for the past six years. 

The Lehr is the ideal piano for the home, and its pres- 
ence there is a sign of culture and refinement in the family. 

The favor which the Lehr enjoys 
among professional musicians, its 
increasing popularity among pur- 
chasers of taste, and its high repu- 
tation in the music trade, confirm 
the evidence of artistic excellence 
which the piano itself at once con- 
veys. 

Superb tone, perfect adjustment, 
exquisite case and excelling work- 
manship place this instrument in 
the front rank. Its durability, at- 
tained only by the use of the high- 
est grade material and the finest 
construction in every detail, insures 
permanent satisfaction. 

Lehr Upright, Grand and Player 
Pianos are noted for originality and 
beauty of case design as well as for 
tone quality and reliability. They 
are made in the richest Fancy Ma- 
hogany, Figured Walnut, Quartered 
Oak, and other choice woods, are 
superbly finished with a depth of 
lustre rarely seen, and possess all modern improvements 
besides valuable features found in no other make. 

"The sweet toned Lehr" is a descriptive phrase that has 
been adopted by many prominent dealers who handle this 
instrument. It is also used and endorsed by leading schools 
of music, including the Grand Conservatory of Music, New 
York City; The Pennsylvania College of Music, Philadel- 



Lehr Style 32 Player 



treatment of friends and strangers on the basis of best 
values obtainable, and the highest quality of goods, is con- 
ceded by all who have had dealings with Mrs. Lanterman. 



OF STROUDSBURG AND VICINITY 
phia; The Chicago Conservatory, Chicago; The Pueblo Con- 
servatory of Music, Pueblo, Col., and other musical institu- 
tions which have given flattering testimonials to the merits 
of the Lehr Piano. 

The Lehr instruments are manufactured by H. LEHR & 
CO., at Easton, Pa. The small freight expense on ship- 
ments from Easton to Stroudsburg permit local purchasers 
to secure an instrument of the highest standard at a rea- 
sonable cost. Horace Lehr, President of H. Lehr & Co., 
is well known in this section, not 
only as the head of one of Eas- 
ton's principal industries, but also 
by reason of his active interest in 
public affairs, being a former May- 
or of Easton and a former Presi- 
dent of its live Board of Trade. 

The large plant of H. Lehr & 
Co. is frequently visited by noted 
artists, as well as by dealers in 
Lehr Pianos, who take advantage 
of this opportunity to come into 
close contact with the makers of 
"the sweet toned Lehr." It is due 
to this fact, perhaps, that many of 
the leading artists have become 
real boosters for this piano. For 
at the factory they have every 
means of proving to their own sat- 
isfaction that Hie Lehr Pianos are 
made right, tested before they are 
shipped away, and so carefully 
parked that — barring accidents in 
transit — they wil reach the individ- 
ual purchaser without a flaw. 

.Mrs. J. 11. Lanternian, of East Stroudsburg, who has the 
agency for this popular instrument in this territory, has 
absolute faith in the Lehr I'iann and its makers. The 
price is very reasonable, but the piano always gives satis- 
faction. Mrs. J. H. Lanterman carries the Lehr Pianos in 
stock, but is ever ready to fill special orders promptly. 

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Her tihte Personal Supervision 
of H. P. 



Burnett Garage 



In East Sfcroudsbuarg, 
Recognition In th« 

ImoLJ w!i:!i ciio .I'nick /Vjouey 



3 




IVE years ago next April, H. P. Custard purchased 
the garage, formerly conducted by L. H. Burnett, 
and continued the business as the Burnett Garage 
which has been going since with marked success. 
With an experience of about eleven years in the motor 
car and repair line, Mr. Custard is able to meet all the de- 
mands of the trade. Under the ownership of Mr. Burnett, 
Mr. Custard had entire charge of the business for fully four 
years, while two years 
were previously devoted 
to learning the busi- 
ness. Today the Burnett 
Garage is an important 
factor in this town. 

Although a native of 
Monroe County, Mr. 
Custard spent five years 
in Massachusetts learn- 
ing the trade of ma- 
chinist. Those who 
know the difficulties of 
auto owners with dam- 
aged or broken parts, 




Burnett Garage, Analomink Street 
near North Water Gap, and then after Mr. Pipher moved 
to Stroudsburg. Mr. Custard has had the agency for the 
Buick cars since 1911, gaining with the sale of this popular 
car many new friends. The Burnett Garage is also fully 
equipped for all classes of repair and remodeling work, and 
carries in stock automobile supplies, oils, gasoline, tires, 
Buick and Ford parts. An automobile livery service de- 
partment caters to lo- 
cal and transient trade, 
experienced chaufleurs, 
familiar with the roads, 
being placed in charge 
of cars rented out. Each 
and every auto is care- 
fully inspected before it 
leaves the garage on 
hire, insuring to all pa- 
trons unexcelled ser- 
vice. 

The Buick Car has re- 
ceived favorable atten- 
tion from those in the 



Buick Touring Car, Model C-25 
ran fully appreciate the knowledge thus gained by Mr. market for a new car, because Mr. Custard gives his per 



Custard. He later spent two years "getting the hang" of 
the automobile business from the senior Mr. Pipher, one 




Sectional View of Interior at Burnett Garage 
year while the latter still ran his business at the old mill, 



sonal care to each buyer. He is ever ready to demonstrate 

the car and prove its advantages in a convincing manner 
and through actual service. A large 
number of cars are owned locally 
throughout the county as the result 
of his activity in behalf of this make. 
The Burnett Garage is advantage- 
ously located on Analomink Street, 
near the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western station, right in the heart of 
East Stroudsburg. 

Long Distance telephone messages 
can be sent to this garage over the 
Bell or the Local System, the Strouds- 
burg & Bushkill Telephone Company 
accepting calls for the Burnett Gar- 
age from affiliated companies includ- 
ing the Bell System. In this manner 
prompt attention can be given to all 
emergency calls from any point in 
this or neighboring states. Telegraph 
calls for cars to meet passengers at 
railway stations will also receive due 
consideration. 

The Burnett Garage is the storage house for automobiles. 

Vulcanizing done promptly, and all repair work guaranteed. 



80 



The Daylight Store in East Stroudsburg 



HAS VVOii !':■;<"';■' :h|[ I'loN A,':. A iVlO.lXSZ.RN i •■'.i'.AJJY'-.L'i >AV i 



AR 



GARMENT 3T0RA 



__ BEGINNING their career in Newton, New Jersey, in 

t\ 1905, as the Weiss Dry Goods Co., A E. and Joseph 
Weiss, the latter as senior meniher of the firm, 
have built up a large and successful business, with 
branches in Middletown, N. Y., and at East Stroudsburg. 
The store in the Monroe County, Pa., town has become 
iecognized as the only establishment, devoting its entire 
service exclusively to things ready to wear and use. It 
was started in 1909. The Middletown store was opened for 
business in 1913. 

Joseph Weiss who is 
in charge of the East 
Stroudsburg store, has 
had extensive experi- 
ence in Footwear, Hos- 
iery. Notions, Knit Un- 
derwear and Men's 
Furnishings. Mr. Weiss 
uses this knowledge in 
the art of buying for 
his various stores. A. 
E. Weiss, manager of 
the Middletown store, 
is thoroughly experi- 
enced in the Ladies' 
Wearing Apparel aDd 
Millinery. He also gives 
to the united interests 
the benefit of his ex- 
perience by buying for 
these departments. The 
two members of the 
firm have the valuable 
assistance of their 
brother, B. H. Weiss, 
who has charge of the 
Newton store. With 
his experience in Un- 
dermuslins and White 
Goods, he is an import- 
ant factor in the buying 
for these departments. 

A direct and extra- 
ordinary advantage ac- 
crues to the firm thro 
these possibilities of 
purchasing in large 
quantities in all lines 
and distributing the 
stock to each store ac- 
cording to local de- 
mand. Each buyer 
keeps track of the 
changes in the markets affecting his particular depart- 
ments, and thus always secures every advantage or avoids 
disadvantages. The customers of The Daylight Store get 
the benefit in their turn. The Weiss stores give employ- 
ment to an average of twenty-five employees, special help 
for special occasions not being counted. 

The Daylight Store, at East Stroudsburg, is most thor- 
oughly lighted by electricity, but may well be termed the 
' Daylight Store," on account of its having daylight com- 




ing in on all sides. The window and interior displays are 
attractive features of this store, while the efficient evening 
lighting effects give this town a Daylight Corner until 
nearly midnight, a fact appreciated by the public. 

The firm expects to make extensive improvements dur- 
ing 1915, for which some plans have already been laid. 
The past record of The Daylight Store reflects credit 
ipon the community, as well as upon the management. It 
is said that Joseph Weiss, who directs so successfully the 

a ff a i r s of the East 
Stroudsburg store, de- 
manded more lighting 
fixtures, when he leased 
the store in the then 
new building, than 
were provided for by 
the owner in his recent 
improvement of that 
corner. On being told 
that it would involve 
con siderable expense, 
Mr. Weiss said: "I 
am willing to pay for 
anything asked for, but 
I must have light 
enough in the store to 
justify the name "Day- 
light Store," even at 
night. 

This is only one of 
the factors calculated 
to please the public. 
On special occasions 
everything is done to 
attract attention to the 
Daylight Store corner, 
for Mr. Weiss is an ex- 
perienced window trim- 
mer who knows the art 
of displaying merchan- 
dise to advantage. The 
selling methods are 
naturally based on the 
ability of this house to 
buy in quantities, so 
that the East Slrouds 
burg store is ever ready 
to quote the lowest 
prices to their custom- 
ers. The advertising 
policy of the Daylight 
Store aims to serve the 
public by making 
known promptly every special purchasing opportunity, as 
well as by announcing in due time the arrival of seasona- 
ble merchandise. 

Joseph Weiss believes that boosting the town helps 
every business. Consequently he is found active iu every- 
thing that helps the common interests of all who believe 
in a greater Monroe County. It is conceded by all that Mr. 
Weiss is a live wire who places service to his patron:; 
in a class with service for the good of East Stroudsburg. 



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Tike P@€©irn© Fire Proft®dta¥© A§§©tiiati@im 



Work 



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••....:.•- 



'• By DR 

THE Pocono Protective Fire Association was organized 
in Stroudsburg in November, 1902. Its incorporators 
were: George G. Sharer, of Mountainhorne; Isaac S. 
Case, of Tobyhanna; John Price Wetherill, of Phila- 
delphia; Isaac D. Ivison, of Mount Pocono, and Thomas I.,. 
Hodge, who represented the Monroe Water Supply Com- 
pany (Lehigh Coal and Navagation Company). The object 
of the association was the protection of the woodlands of 
the Pocono Mountains, which were being devastated by 
forest fires, year after year. 

At that time the great lumber industry that hsd made 
many fortunes and given employment to thousands, had 
long since passed away from these mountains, and little 
interest was taken by the public in lands that had once 
been covered with forest trees but now were worthless, in 
consequence of fires that had repeatedly swept over them 
and burned out the fertile elements of the soil. 

But another industry was coming to the front. Monroe 
County was developing as a resort for rest, and health, 
and recreation for sportsmen, tourists and summer visitors 
from the great cities 
of the East. Hotels 
and boarding houses 
were increasing in 
number, and large 
tracts of land were 
being secured for the 
establishment of colo- 
nies of cottagers. It 
was plain to be seen 
that the preservation 
of the scenic attrac- 
tions of the county was 
imperative, if this 
growing industry was 
to be fostered and en- 
larged. 

In those days the 
township constables 
were nominally fire 
wardens, but there was 
no organized fire ser- 
vice, and too often 
through carelessness 

forest fires were allowed to burn on the mountains for 
days and nights, without an attempt to suppress them. 
The Pocono Protectice Fire Association was formed with 
the idea that a private organization, made up of the many 
who were interested, in one way or another, in the welfare 
and development of the county, could command sufficient 
means to provide fire wardens of its own, and do effective 
work in preventing and controlling forest fires. The incor- 
poration was an historic event, for this was the first private 
association for forest protection that was established in 
ihe United States. Today there are dozens of similar pri- 
vate associations, dotted here and there over the country, 
working in harmony with the forestry organizations of 
their States and the National Government, and rendering 
invaluable service to both. 

The association succeeded in carrying out its projects 
with a fair amount of success up to the year 1909. Then 
the Legislature took away from the townships the control 
of forest fires and vested the authority in the State Depart- 
ment of Forestry. As soon as this change was effected 



WM. R. FISHER 




EDWIN A. HOOPES, PRESIDENT 
Pocono Protective Fire Association 



many members of the association withdrew their support, 
thinking that private effort was no longer needed since the 
State had assumed the duty of preventing and controlling 
forest fires. So many resigned that, for a time, the very 
existence of the association was threatened. 

But there were others who saw further ahead and real- 
ized the need and value of the Fire Association to Monroe 
County. They recognized the fact, now so generally ac- 
cepted, that such private organizations are in position to 
render special service to the State and often to ass'st in 
accomplishing rsults that cannot otherwise be secured. The 
association was not allowed to die out, and its present pros- 
perity shows the wisdom of those who stood by it in the 
time of trial. 

The present Board of Directors have had charge of the 
affairs of the association since 1912: Edwin A. Hoopes, 
president; J. A. Seguine, vice president; Chas. N. Thomp- 
son, E. C. Arnold; and Wm. R. Fisher, sercetary and treas- 
urer. A popular revival of interest in the progress and de- 
velopment of the association has followed close upon a vig- 
orous educational cam- 
paign which the direc- 
tors instituted through 
lectures, through prize 
essay contests among 
the pupils of the 
schools of the county, 
and through the press, 
which has always 
given most generous 
support to the move- 
ment for forest protec- 
tion. The people are 
gradually learning that 
the aim of forest pro- 
tection is not alone to 
save timber; that the 
preservation of our 
forests means alto the 
protec tion of our 
springs and wells, and 
the streams that are 
tributaries of the Del- 
aware and the Lehigh, 
that every fire in the woods does harm to the soil and hin- 
ders the renewal of the trees; that frequent fires, passing 
over the same land, leave it at last a useless barren waste. 
During the session of the General Assembly of 1913 the 
Pocono Protective Fire Association took an active part in 
bringing about the passage of two supplementary laws for 
the improvement of fire fighting methods. As a conse- 
quence Monroe County now has a State District Forester 
to supervise and direct the fire wardens in each township 
and, more important perhaps, it has a system of fire patrol, 
carried on n co-operation with the State authorities, which 
has proved to be the most useful advance in fire protec- 
tion that has thus far been effected. The County of Mon- 
roe was the first in the State to secure the advantages of 
these two acts of Assembly. 

At the present time the membership of the Poconc Pro- 
tective Fire Association is larger and its strength is greater 
than ever before. Its range of activity is no longer restrict 
ed to the mountains but extends throughout the county. 
Its Board of Directors works with renewed energy for all. 



DR. WM. R. FISHER, SECRETARY 
Pocono Protective Fire Association 



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CRESCO, THE 
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SWAY 
SGION 
























AN ILLUSTRATED, DESCRIPTIVE, HISTORICAL 


J. A. SEGUINE, 


CRESCO, PA. 





the development of the "hoop pole" industry in 1S91. This 
also was doomed to decline and to pass out of existence 
with the onward march of the American inventor, steel 
taking the place of wood hoops. Oakland Blue Stone fur- 
nished in turn an industry which lost its virtue as in indus- 
trial factor, when cement crowded out this product of 
Barrett township. But nature remained kind despite all 
these reverses and left us the huckleberry, which has been 
and still is a source of considerable revenue, as every sea- 
son thousands of quarts are shipped daily from Cresco to 

the New York and 
Philadelphia markets. 
But this is not all. 
With the elimination 
of the saw mill came 
the mine timber in- 
dustry, which from a 
beginning of a few 
cars monthly has de- 
veloped into an im- 
mense industry. Whole 
train loads of mine 
props and ties have 
been shipped from 
Cresco and Mouutain- 

Cresco Station, the Busy Passenger and Shipping Center on the D.. L. & W. Railroad honie in a single day. 

The pioneers in this present day industry were Seguine 
& Shannon, and George F. Smith, and later Joseph W. 
Swaine, who has been succeeded by Theodore B. Price. 
Today midway between Cresco and Mountainhome will be 
found in operation a most ingenious device for replacing 
manual labor in this one industry. Here machines with 
one operator do the work of several men. One machine 

makes four saw cuts and 



RESCO — All out for Cresco, Canadensis, Mountain- 
home, Laanna, etc., and other places reached from 
this station on the Lackawanna Railroad which 
has grown in importance within the past few 
years, until now it is on the map. The conductor and the 
brakeman give voice to their station call energetically, for 
here traffic justifies some attention to the needs of the 
passengers and their baggage. Here also the incoming ex- 
press and freight shipments, together with the outgoing 
freight, demand more than passing attention. Time was 
when much of this 
section was merely 
known by the names 
of the townships, first, 
Price and Paradise, 
from portions of which 
in 1859, Barrett Town- 
ship was erected. 
Named in honor of 
George H. Barrett, at 
that time President 
Judge of the Monroe 
County Courts, the 
township has lost none 
of its lustre since his 
death. 

It is true that Cresco which has earned the title of "The 
Gateway to a Favored Region," as part of and with the 
entire township of Barrett, has passed through several in- 
dustrial crises, but it is also true that it emerged from 
these crises due to development of industries in connection 
with timber from a momentary despair into an era of hope- 
fulness, worthy of the sturdiest pioneer. Although the first 
settler, John Price, located 




in what was then Price 
township, as early as 1674, 
the active history of Bar- 
rett township leads us back 
only to 1840. Then in the 
sixties prosperity followed 
in the wake of the early 
citizens, when immense 
tracts of timber attracted 
outside capital. Tanneries 
at Mountainhome and Can- 
adensis; shoe-peg, clothes 
pin, and veneer factories at 
Mountainhome; saw mills 
located on several streams; 
they were the actual signs 
of industrial prosperity dur 
ing the timber era. The 
first indications of decline 
came with the burning of 
the large tannery at Mountainhome in 1S85. This was fol- 
lowed by financial reverses until the veteran lumberman, 
Martin Rinehart, completed his last contract, and was fol- 
lowed soon after his death by the collapse of the old mill. 
A healthy revival came to Barrett in its darkest hour with 




BARRETT FRIENDLY LIBRARY. MOUNTAINHOME, PA. 
Convenient for Barrett Township's Residents and Visitors 



planes out two notches mak- 
ing a complete tie with one 
operation. Another machine 
turns out thousands of 
sprags daily. Still another 
machine picks up a log or 
prop from the ground and 
lifts it on the car at the rate 
of one a minute. Truly the 
citizens of this region are 
adopting modern methods 'o 
cope with the problems of 
the day. The manufactur- 
ing of rustic chairs, benches, 
settees, etc., now on sale in 
stores in many cities, has 
been given a new scope by 
M. L. Krummell, of Cana- 
densis, who invenied and 
perfected machinery reduc 
ing hand labor and increasing capacity. In Canadensis 
there is also a steady general development noticeable. 
Every hotel and boarding house owner aims to reach a 
patronage that shall go away satisfied and boosting for 
Monroe. Here they make a business of pleasing strangers. 



83 



One has good reason to feel proud of this fact in the adapta- 
tion of our people to the needs and requirements of those 
who are giving to us that largest of all industries, for which 
Cresco is the gateway to a favorite region, that which is 
neither confined within the boundary lines of the township, 
nor restricted to the township of our near neighbors. That 
greatest of industries is found in the summer resorts 
which have given back to us a 
prosperity of unlimited dimen- 
sions. 

Close by here the pioneers in 
the development of the business, 
about a third of a century ago, 
were Edward Price, and Henry 
Zeiger, of Cresco; Henry Price, 
of Mountainhome; C. W. Bruton 
and Abram Albert, of Canaden- 
sis. Compare the combined capa- 
city of these early houses for a 
total of 150 guests with the fact 
that today Cresco is the receiving 
station for about 50 boarding 
houses and hotels, with a total 
capacity of about 2500 guests. Na- 
ture has been kind to us in this 
great enterprise, for which pros- 
perity is destined to continue in 
years to come by virtue of cli- 
matic and natural advantages. 

Paradise, Price and Coolbaugh 
townships of necessity beuefit us, 
as our prosperity benefits them, 
and we gladly extend the hand of 
good fellowship to our nearest 
neighbors, as we lay claim to an unprecedented progress 
during the last decade. Today Barrett township has mod- 
ern churches, modern public schools and a high school, 
numerous general stores, one department store, an I. O 
O. F. Hall, two P. O. S. of A. Halls, a public library, first- 
class State Highways. It also derives its share of the 
benefits offered all of Monroe coun- 
ty by the Pocono Protective Fire 
Association, organized for the pro- 
tection and preservation of forests. 
Finally, a body of energetic and 
progressive business men is at the 
head of large and prosperous en- 
terprises. But lest we forget, it is 
well worth while to enumerate here 
the fact that post office growth has 
kept pace with the progress made 
in other directions. Barrett town- 
ship has the postoffice at Cresco, 
which serves by star routes the 
postoffices at Mountainhome, Can- 
adensis, Laanna, South Sterling and 
Panthers. Buckhill Falls, with its 
settlement of about 125 cottages *n 
season, has its own postoffice, 
served through Cresco, which is 
the receiving station for the mail 
of an extensive district. There is 
reason to feel that the business of 
the Cresco office will continue to 
grow. It now has three clerks in 
summer and two in winter. From 
this office Paradise is also served 
by rural route which delivery bene- 
fits many Barrett township residents 




Miss Mary Keokee Monroe 
In Whose Memory Keokee Chapel Was Built 




Keokee Chapel. This Church was Built by Mary E. 
Monroe in Memory of her Beloved Daughter Keokee, 
Near the Famous "Pocono Pines— Popularly Known as 
Paradise Evangelical Church. 

Rev. C. S. Bergstrasser, Cresco, Pastor 



From Canadensis 
also two rural deliveries are made up and reach nearby 
districts conveniently. 



In closing, it is well to state that in the fifties an un- 
broken wilderness presented itself to the pioneer settlers, 
but that already in the eighties farming and fruit raising 
bad brought about an agricultural prosperity within the 
township which was not affected by the ups and downs 
of industrial life. At the present time there is making 
itself felt a renewed interest in the production from the 
tilling of the soil for valuable 
products, which will ever remain, 
in conjunction with the prosperi- 
ty due to the resort life, a factor 
that should give added incentive 
to all. 

The influence of the Buck Hill 
Falls Company on the upbuilding 
of Barrett Township has made 
itself manifest, not only in the 
actual investments of the com- 
pany, but strikingly in the coming 
to this region of a very desirable 
class of visitors. While restrict- 
ed as to the guests accepted, the 
Buck Hill Falls Settlement has 
grown from a small beginning to 
such an extent that about 125 cot- 
tages are occupied each season, 
aside from the accommodations 
offered by the Inn. The demands 
of those who wish to spend parts 
of the winter here have been met 
by the opening of one section for 
this purpose, giving to Cresco and 
vicinity a desirable winter traffic. 
There is every indication that 
other houses will provide for an increasing winter traffic, 
while constantly added general improvements make the 
whole of Barrett Township and neighboring sections an 
ever more desirable paradise for the seeker after pleasures 
and health-giving qualities. Nature has been kind to us in 
providing abundantly the attractive natural advantages 
that make for the real develop- 
ment of a resort region, when 
backed by the enterprise of men 
and women who believe in their 
section. 

The present is merely a begin- 
ning of a harvest of prosperity in 
store for us, if we develop the 
property hereabouts. Where large 
land portions are not up to the high- 
est standard of possibilities, we 
will find intensive farming not only 
profitable, even on small acreage, 
but with proper care the truck 
farming methods and the hothouse 
planting of the great West can be 
called to the attention of those who 
seek locations within easy access 
of large centers. Not only will an 
increase of population result, but 
closer affiliation between growing 
communities may lead to the bring- 
ing here of public service facilities 
of great importance. Enterprising 
citizens of Canadensis are already 
contemplating an electric lighting 
plant that will benefit a number of 
citizens. It cannot be many years 
hence, when the call of the train conductor, as he shouts, 
"Cresco, all out for Cresco, Canadensis, Mountainhome, 
Laanna," will be answered by thousands of happy people. 



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J. A. Seguine Has Built a Modern Merchandising Establishment 
at Cresco, Pa., Winning Success from the Beginning on Honor 



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EARLY a quarter century of business building has 
resulted in the achievement, pictured and told of 
on this page. Established in 1891, The Cresco 
Cash Store, as it was known for the first ten years 
of its career, won a permanent place in the community by 
its ever apparent readiness to serve each customer. This 
preparedness, coupled with the determination to sell only- 
reliable goods at fair prices, a fair return and exchange 
policy, and a liberal credit system have always character- 
ized the store man- 
agement, which has 
always been under 
the personal super- 
vis i o n of J. A. 
Seguine, the owner. 
As the business 
grew, store build- 
ings were erected 
until seven wen; 
in use. But even 
these did not pro- 
vide for the rapkl 
expansion, and in 
1908 the new De- 
partment Store was 
planned and com- 
pleted. This big 
structure, with its 
four floors, the An- 
nex lor old store) 
and seven store 
buildings, with a 
total floor space of 
24,000 square feet, 
are stocked to over- 
flowing with mer- 
chandise. On the main floor 




rooms, twelve departments are located, including: Grocer- 
ies, Drugs, Confectionery, Fresh and Smoked Meats, Flour 



Here, at this modern mercantile establishment and al- 
most under one roof, may be found a greater variety of 
merchandise than at some of the larger department stores 
of the big cities. A paper of pins or an Electric Light Plant, 
a toy wagon or a Motor Truck may be purchased here. 
Right at the gateway and opposite the railway station, the 
Souvenir Store is located, where Ice Cream and soft drinks 
are served during the summer season, while at all times a 
large variety of Souvenirs and Stationery are carried in 

stock. A unique 
and original feature 
of this store is the 
setting aside each 
year of one business 
day to celebrate the 
Anniversary of the 
completion of the 
new store. So much 
interest has been 
aroused in the suc- 
cess of Mr. Seguine 
and in the doings 
of this store that at 
Ihe last celebration, 
the Sixth Annual 
event, held on Octo- 
ber 31st, mere than 
one thousand per- 
sons — from fift>- 
two towns and ci- 
ties — visited Crescr. 
to attend the gath- 
ering. There is am- 
ple reason to feel 
that Cresco's De- 
partment Store, un- 
will continue in 
future years as an active force in the upbuilding of Bar- 
rett Township, as well as of Monroe County. In every 



Sectional View of One Salesroom on Main Floor 

which is divided into four der the management of Mr. Seguine 




Mam Building. Containing Pour Floors— Including: a Light Basement 

Devoted to Merchandising. Receiving and Shipping Room 

at Extreme Right of Main Floor 

and Feed, Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Men's Furnishings, 
Hardware, Paints and Varnishes. Ready-to-\\'ear Garments, 
Carpets, Wallpaper, Harness, etc., are on the second floor. 




I oi ■ .rv ami Souvenir Store Right at the Gateway 

movement for the good of this section, and in his case the 
whole county. .Mr. Seguine is found among the leaders. 
He believes that "he who helps others helps himself best." 



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I THE AYRSHIRES-A NEW ASSET 



! 



TO THE PROSPERITY OF MONROE COUNTY 



— + 




to the conditions under which they have been reared, the Ayrshire 
is a hardy, vigorous breed quick and active, and perhaps the best o£ 
all dairy breeds to withstand adverse conditions. They are essen- 
tially a grazing breed, and give the best results when on pasture 
alone. The prevailing colors are red and white, brown, and white 
with white largely predominating. 

The first Ayrshires in America were brought to New York in 
1822. They were imported into New England in 1830, and into Can- 
ada in 1837. The breed has been a special favorite for dairy pur- 
poses in Canada, the New England States and part of New York 
State, but. until recently does not seem to be as well known else- 
where as its established good qualities deserve. The end sought, 
in perfecting the breed has been a large yield of milk, with the 
utmost economy in the utilization of food. 

The Ayrshire cow is of medium size, weighing on an average 
about 1,000 pounds, and has a decided appearance of an excellent 
dairy cow. She is a great eater, and not in the least fastidious 
about her food. She is very active, a fast walker and when at 
liberty, most constantly in motion. She is quiet in disposition, bright 
and intelligent and, despite her activity, is neither fidgety nor ner- 
vous when being milked. 

She is a persistent milker, giving a large flow nearly the whole 

ABOUT a year ago a movement was started in Monroe year. The average cow should give about 4,000 quarts of 
County that is destined to double the value of every milk a year, but there are individual records of from 6,000 
farm in the County in 20 years, perhaps less. It was to 10,000 quarts in a year. The milk is of a good color, 
the introduction of a breed of cattle — the Ayrshires, which looks rich, never blue nor lean and, on account of its equal 



A PERFECT AYRSHIRE COW 

Kilnford Bell 3rd, Grand Champion, being: the best cow of 

any breed at the Chicago Dairy Show 1913 and 1914 



are splendidly adapted for our 
farming conditions. Our farms 
are ideal for dairy farming; 
we have access to the best 
markets at good prices, and all 
we need is better cows and 
more of them. With better 
cows will come better care and 
with better care will come in- 
creased production and in- 
creased profits. We have now 
one cow to every 28 acres of 
cultivated land. Lancaster 
County has one to every 12 
acres. If we double the num- 
ber of cows, which we should 
do, and double the production 
of each cow as we can do, we 
will produce just four times 
the amount of butter and milk 
and will have surpluses to sell 

, ..... . . . Rvanofi:ue Exemplar, a splendid, pure bred Ayrshire Bull 

and Will bring in ready cash as owned by Robert Price & Son, Cresco, Barrett Township 

well as improving the fertility of the farms where more cows are 
kept. Previous to 1914, William J. Moore, of Analomink, and C. J. 
Pasold, of Canadensis, owned Ayrshire bulls. They were con- 

vinced of their worth but few of their neighbors shared their en- 
thusiasm. Since the movement started the following enterprising 
larmers have bought and now own pure bred Ayrshire bulls: 




distribution of cream and 
casein, is easily digested, and 
excellent for children and peo- 
ple with weak digestion. Her 
milk is admirably suited for 
town and city supply, testing 
well above local requirements, 
uniform and capable of rough 
handling and long journeys 
without injury. 

One great advantage of the 
Ayrshire breed is that when 
the bulls and cows are through 
their usefulness they put on 
flesh and fat, being in great de- 
mand by discriminating butch- 
ers. This is an important item. 
For free printed matter re- 
lating to Ayrshires, send ap- 
plication to C. M. Winslow, 
Ayrshire Breeder's Associa- 
tion, Brandon, Vermont. 



Robert Price & Son, 
Harry W. Krummell, 
J. Personeni, 
William Bonnick, 
E. D. Huffman, 
H. N. Henry, 
Frank Hoffman, 
David Davidson, 
Irvin L. Allegar, 
Charmarie Farms, 



Cresco 

Canadensis 

Canadensis 

Canadensis 

Marshall's Creek 

Analomink 

Analomink 

Coolbaugh 

North Water Gap 

Buck Hill Falls 



Nearly all these men have placed their bulls at service and it 
will not be long before the County will be filled with grade Ayr- 
shires of splendid milking strains. In addition quite a number of 
dairymen are planning, just as soon as way opens, to buy a bull or a 
cow or both and start to build up pure bred herds. They realize 
that those early in the movement will profit most by it. 

The Ayrshire is particularly adapted to Monroe County. Owing 

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Marketan, a two-year-old Monroe County Ayrshire Belong- 
ing to Charmarie Farms, Barrett Township 




Parked Streets Make Home Life Attractive in Monroe County. Main Street at Eighth, Looking West, Stroudsburg 



Monroe Connir/s Pride Ls Centered m llsl lorne and Social I ,ife 

"NOR NEED WE POWER OR SPLENDOR, 
WIDE HALL OR LORDLY DOME— 
THE GOOD, THE TRUE, THE TENDER 
THESE FORM THE WEALTH OF HOME." 



By C B. KELLER, Jr., Caa 



FROM the earliest date of any settlement in that part 
of Pennsylvania, which is now known as Monroe 
County and to which at least a part of the county 
of Pike is closely related, there must have been something 
else than mere desire for wealth, to prompt the pioneer 
settler to make his home hereabouts. The name of Daniel 
Brodhead comes up in the records continuously as having 
been closely identified with that part of Monroe, which in 
early days was known as Dansbury, retaining that name 
until Stroudsburg was founded by Jacob Stroud, in 1769. 
Only men who believed in a country as being fit for a home 
would have deemed it at all 
advisable to build a log mis- 
sion chapel, as did Daniel 
Brodhead, for use by Morav- 
ian missionaries of that day. 
This second house of wor- 
ship north of the mountains 
became known as the Dans- 
bury Mission and was dedi- 
cated on the 19th day of 
May, 1753. The church has 
ever been a factor in the 
social life of the citizens of 
Monroe, the history of the 
earliest house of worship be- 
ing, however, somewhat ob- 
scured. It was a Union 
Church, erected jointly by 
the Lutheran and Reformed 
settlers in and around Shaw- 
nee. A corner stone found 
in the South wall of the Presbyterian church, built upon 
Its site in 1853, shows the date of its erection to have been 
1752. The first church book known to have been in exist- 
ence, and later in the care of the Smithfield Lutheran 
Church pastors, bears date of May 18, 1798. its illuminated 
title page having had this inscription: "Das allgemeine 
Kirchen-Buch der Unterschmidfeldter Lutherischen uud 
Reformiete.n Genieinden in Northampton County in dem 
Slaat Pennsilvanien." Its records, among other things, 
contained dates of baptisms running back even to 1787. 



Residence of ,|. A. 



All these facts prove that home life was an early factor 
in the upbuilding of the county. 

It is difficult to actually and extensively set forth in 
limited space each and every early settler. For the pur- 
pose of making clear my claim that home and social life 
was the pride of Monroe County, even before such a coun- 
ty was legally erected, just as it remains its tower of 
strength as well as cause for pride today, a few of the 
early names need be mentioned. One knows that our fore- 
fathers came here from all the lands which in those days 
furnished immigrants. There were, among others, the 

brothers Sly, one settling in 
Smithfield, the others on 
land in Stroud township, 
which was later occupied by 
Josiah Bossard and by Chas. 
and Michael Keller, respect- 
ively. Major Jos. Drake was 
among the early settlers. He 
married a Miss Houser. The 
names of James Brewer. 
George Felker, Benjamin 
Decker, Chas. Miller, Thos. 
Gordon. Chas. M. Foulke, 
Aaron Cramer, Derrick Van 
Vliet, David Smiley, -Mat- 
thias Shafer. Jacob Tosten, 
John Huston, Joseph Kerr, 
Thomas W. Rhodes, Walter 
Barry, are mentioned to give 
an idea how the home life 
Secuine. Cresco, Pa. grew into belng through the 

efforts of early settlers. Peter LaBar built a log house, 
probably the first hereabouts, in 1730, near the west side 
of what is now the borough of Stroudsburg. 

But we needs must come to the name of Stroud, whose 
memory will live, while the two principal communities of 
Monroe County retain their present names. Col. Jacob 
Stroud, born at Aniwell, N. J., on Jan. 15, 1735, came to 
live with Nicholas Depuy, at Shawnee, to learn tanning 
during the early years of his life. At his death, which 
occurred on July 14, 1806, he had not only made a home 




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for himself in this county, but 
had laid the foundation for the 
upbuilding of his adopted home 
section. To his son David 
must be accredited the first 
real effort of the determined 
parking of the streets and the 
beginning of a concentrated ef- 
fort to secure a nucleus for de- 
velopment. As a middle aged 
man, Col. Jacob Stroud occu- 
pied old Fort Fenn as his 
home. But one and one-half 
miles distant, near Fort Ham- 
ilton, which was some 20 years 
older, he had erected for John, 
his eldest son, a large roomy 
stone mansion, which was com- 
pleted in 1795. Between this 
mansion and the fort, a frame dwelling was erected in what 
is now the center of the town, opposite the present Hotel 
Fulmer, formerly known as the Burnett House. In 1797, 
the large stone home was occupied by Daniel Stroud, anoth- 
er son of Col. Jacob Stroud. A third house, built simulta- 




Home of A. W. Kistler, Prop 
21 Prospect Street 



of, it is because our pioneer 
forefathers have left us noth- 
ing to be ashamed of. 

Social life, as viewed from 
the standpoint of societies and 
orders, was inaugurated before 
Monroe County was born. John 
Coolbaugh's home offered the 
lodge room for the meetings of 
Zebulon Lodge, No. 179, F. and 
A. M., which had been organ- 
ized on Sept. 3, 1821, by the 
Grand Master of the Grand 
Lodge of Pennsylvania, Bayse 
Newcomb, with John Coolbaugfi 
as Worshipful Master, Daniel 
W. Dingman as Senior War- 
den, and Cornelius Coolbaugh 
as Junior Warden. It appears 
that the lodge was discontinued after June, 1827, since no 
records can be found of later meetings. It is only neces- 
sary to point to the many and varied lodges and organiza- 
tions in the county today, to prove that the social life, en- 
gendered by fraternal organizations, has reached a high 



rietor Pocono Hosiery Mills 
East Stroudsburg 




Parked Streets Make Home Life Attractive in Monroe Co. Washington Street, East Stroudsburg, North East from Armor}' 

neously, if records are true, stood for years where the ulace in our own county and close by among our neighbors. 



Malta Temple has since superseded it in the course of the 
onward march of improvements. 

During the early period of the present century John 
Witchel, an English Quaker, and his wife aiso erected and 
occupied a dwelling which stood 
where now the Indian Queen 
Hotel is located. In East Strouds- 
burg, the old homestead of Dan- 
iel Brodhead, later the residence 
of J. R. Smith, was built about 
150 years ago, and located on 
what is now Courtland Street. 
An old stone house on Washing- 
ton Street, below the former re 5 ; 
idence of J. H. Shotwell, which 
latter is now the home of Or. 
J. Anson Singer, was the next 
oldest house in its borough lim- 
its, this stone house having been 
the homestead of the Starbirds. 
I have thus enumerated names 
which lead back to the time be- 
fore the establishment of Mon- 
roe county, because today, in 
many cases, descendants of the 
early settlers are scattered 
throughout the country. If home 
life is today anything to be proud 




The Old Stroud Mansion — With Slight Changes 
Still Standing at Main and Ninth Streets, Stroudsburg. 
Landmark and Testimony to the Good Judgment of 
Stroudsburg's Founder in Planning the Town 



The magnificent private homes, many of which are shown 
in this edition, in turn indicate that the home life of Mon- 
roe is ideal enough to appeal to the city bred and farmer 
alike. The "Back to the Farm" slogan has meant more to 
those who have chosen to live 
within reach of the two Strouds- 
burgs, the natural supply center 
for a large territory, than is 
usually found possible. 

Communities are growing even 
farther away from this center, 
because modern conveniences 
are placing the village in close 
touch with the towns and in turn 
the farmer with his neighbor. 
The log cabin and its fires, kin- 
dled with the aid of flintstone, 
has given way to frame, brick or 
concrete block construction with 
the latest heating conveniences. 
The rough country road through 
wooded districts has been re- 
placed with state and county 
roads of broad dimensions, high- 
ways that enable the farmer to 
bring his product to town or rail- 
way station and to bring back 
needs of the day or week with 



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out hindrance. The automobile has brought the physician 
of one place into close touch with his fellow practitioner 
in case of need. The telephone has placed them all within 
easy reach of calls in any emergency. The surplus product 
of farm or dairy can reach town or city on short notice, 
while the opportunity for so- 
cial pleasures and other 
amusements have brought 
life in the country hereabouts 
to a standard, frequently en- 
vied by the hustling, bustling 
city folks who miss the real 
life. 

"The butcher, the baker 
and the candlestick maker" 
leave their wares at our doors 
at our request. Electricity 
and gas furnish light, fuel 
and heat — often before the 
furnace comes into action — 
to countless families who in 
the days of long ago used oil 
as the only means of illu- 
mination and wood as the only 
fuel. Trolley cars bring us 
cheap transportation, while 
other systems are being plan 
ned that may cover the whole 
county of Monroe and give 
us stil closer interchange 
with our neighbor Pike. 

Summer homes, owned by 
leading citizens of the great 
Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 
vania, New Jersey and New 
York state, dot the county. 
Wealthy business men of the 
three states maintain farms 
— devoted to specialization 
along certain lines — and run 
up frequently to spend the week-end all the year round, 
while others spend the summers at the beautiful homes 
erected on their own properties. 

Fraternal organizations maintain their own buildings in 
nearly every village 
of any size, or at least 
in townships, affording 
the social and frater- 
nal advantages that go 
hand in hand today 
to make life in the 
country desirable. 
Churches, too, reach 
every child and adult 
who find spiritual and 
social comfort in close 
affiliation with their 
fellow-beings. It ; s 
indeed different today 
than years ago. 

To call attention to 
the large number of 
attractive homes in 
Monroe County and 
that section of Pike 
which is tributary to 
our region — individu- 
ally — would require 
unlimited space. It 




Salem Church, a Union Church at Gilbert. Pa. 




Park is just gaining the prestige to which it is entitled 
by virtue of the magnificent homes being erected there. 
Thomas Street has for years been a select residence por- 
tion of Stroudsburg. A part of Main Street remains the 
center of beautiful residences, although east and west of 

that centre is being and has 
been changed into business 
property. East Stroudsburg 
is gaining in the same man- 
ner recognition as a com- 
munity of fine homes. Normal 
Hill Section from Ridg- 
way Street way past Analo- 
mink Street is being built 
up rapidly with modern resi- 
dences, owned by the leading 
citizens of the Borough. 
"Washington Street — in the 
same manner as Main Street 
of Stroudsburg — is retaining 
the character of a residence 
neighborhood, while north 
and south of that particular 
portion business is making 
its inroads upon vacant or 
sparsely improved property. 
The country homes, owned 
by individuals who make 
their permanent residence in 
Monroe County and in Pike, 
are in many instances de- 
serving of notice. The sum- 
mer homes, owned by promi- 
nent citizens of the larger 
cities in this and neighboring 
states, are of a class com- 
paring favorably with fine 
suburban residences in many 
places throughout the coun- 
ty. Passing on from this 
casual mention of the reality of real and really fine homes 
in this section. 1 hasten to call attention to the innu- 
merable churches — appealing to every creed. These may 
be found even in the most restricted sections on a scale 

worthy of comparison 
with the edifices of 
worship in larger 
communities. T h e 
s u m m e r guest in 
Monroe County pro- 
vides — as it were — 
the opportunity for 
his own and the at- 
ten dance of his 
friends at religious 
services which in no 
way detracts from 
the opportunities for 
recreation. 

The life among fra- 
ternal bodies justifies 
some mention of in- 
dividual organizations 
as far as I liav< 
able to conveniently 
secure the [acts, in a 
manner descriptive. 
• T possible, " 
Masonic lodges own 



Mary of the Mount Church, Mt. Pocono, Pa., Rev. P.J. BolnnU, Rei 
sufficient to reiterate that in the historic data obtained. Th. 
Stroudsburg street upon street may be classed as repre- buildings in both the Stroudsburgs The Masonic body 
sentative residence sections of the community. Highland :it East Stroudsburg only recently completed one of the 



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modern structures in this section, devoting all of its up- Eugene Custard; Sword Bearer, Charles D. Appenzeller; 



per floors to the purposes of Masonry and affiliated organ- 
izations. The officers of J. Simpson African Lodge, No. 
628, Free and Accepted Masons, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., 
are: Worshipful Master, J. N. Gish; Senior Warden, W. E. 



Warden, Edward L. Dreher; Sentinel, Charles Kresge; 
st Guard, Bert H. Kintner; 2nd Guard, Samuel B. Hag- 
gerty. Trustees, 6 months, James Mclntyre; 12 months, 
Reeves J. Bush; 18 months, Alvin C. Trach. The Corn- 





Residence of Chas. R. Turn 
510 Thomas Street, Stroudsburg, Pa. 

VanVliet; Junior Warden, V. M. Reynolds; Secretary, 
A. D. Wannamaker; Treasurer, W. C. Drake. 

The officers of Barger Lodge, No. 325, Free and Ac- 
cepted Masons, of Stroudsburg, Pa., are: Worshipful Mas- 
ter, George B. Metzgar; Senior Warden, Norman O. Ben- 
der; Junior Warden, Howard E. Creitz; Treasurer, P. M. 
Howard R. Flagler; Secretary, John C. Bensinger; Trus- 
tees, P. M. Steward S. Flagler, P. M. William L. Andre; 
P. M. Lewis Shifter. Masonic Temple is at Main and 6th. 

Monroe Chapter, No. 99, Order of the Eastern Star, 
was instituted June 3rd, 1910, with forty-eight charter 
members and now has a membership of one hundred twen- 
ty two (122). Meetings are held in Masonic Hall, East 
Stroudsburg, Pa., the first and third Friday evenings of 
every month, except July and August. 

The present officers are: Worthy Matron, Mrs. Mary C. 
Stem; Worthy Patron, Frank A. 
Snover, Associate Matron, Mrs. Bes- 
sie A. Walters; Secretary, Mrs. Lou 
H. Bornhoeft; Treasurer, Mrs. Laura 
P. Bush; Conductress, Mrs. Francis 
Neyhart; Associate Conductress, Mrs. 
Mary A. Andre; Chaplain, Mrs. Char- 
lotte Ransberry; Adah, Mrs. Maude 
Hartman; Ruth, Mrs. Elnora Palmer; 
Esther, Mrs. Ida May Snover; 
Martha, Mrs. Sue B. Warman; Electa, 
Mrs. Lizzie Heller; Warder, Mrs. 
Laura Rinehart; Sentinel, William 
K. Deubler; Organist, Mrs. Kathryn 
Frantz; Marshal, Mrs. Anna L. 
Henry. 

The Knights of Malta lodge, of 
Stroudsburg, was instituted March 
27, 1896, in the Dr. N. C. Miller Build- 
ing, Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa., 
with 66 charter members, George F. 
Bartholomew being the organizer. 
The Commandery was instituted by 
George H. Pierce, P. S. C, who was then the Grand Re- 
corder of Pennsylvania. The first officers were: Sir 
Knight Commander, Dr. N. C. Miller; Generalissimo, 
Moses E. Miller; Captain General, L. Broad Palmer; Pre- 
late, Henry A. Bell; Recorder, Samuel D. Mellick; Treas- 
urer, James Mahlon; Senior Warden, Robert B. Powell; 
Junior Warden, John L. Stackhouse; Standard Bearer, 




Union Church, Brodheadsville, Pa. 



Residence of Dr. A. A. Wertman, Tannersville, Pa. 

mandery has initiated 488 members, and has a present 
membership of 341. Its present officers are: Sir Knight 
Commander, Wm. H. Carson; Generalissimo, Charles H. 
Crowe; Captain General, Frank L. Stackhouse; Prelate, 
Lester E. Lord; Recorder, Alfred L. Snyder; Assistant Re- 
corder, William H. Metzgar; Treasurer, Arthur W. Bowlby; 
Senior Warden, Samuel W. Marsh; Junior Warden, Leo 
Klingle; Standard Bearer, Joseph G. Parsons; Sword 
Bearer, Floyd Bachman; Warden, Edward G. Marsh; Sen- 
tinel, George F. Bartholomew; First Guard, Earl J. Carl- 
ton; Second Guard, William E. Mellick; Trustees, 6 months, 
Robt. B. Keller; 12 months, H. B. Bush; 18 months, Ira A. 
LaBar; Scenic Artist, Levi L. Marsh. Commandery owns a 
handsome commodious Temple on Main Street, the finest 
building in town. One of its members has gone through 
the Chairs of the Guard Commandery of Pennsylvania, 
and is now Past Grand Commander of the State, and 
Sentinel in the Supreme Grand Com- 
mandery of the Continent of America. 
The members of the Malta Temple 
Association are: Robert B. Keller, 
President; Herbert B. Bush, Vice 
President; Frank B. Michaels, Sec- 
retary; L. Broad Palmer, Treasurer; 
Luther S. Hoffman, Landlord; Alfred 
L. Snyder, Light and Fuel Agent; 
Lester E. Lord, John N. Gish, Milton 
S. Kistler, James Richmond, William 
B. Eilenberger and Harry B. Drake. 
The officers of Ooolah Siesta, No. 
77, Princes of Bagdad, are: Sultan, 
Robert B. Keller; Scratcher, Alfred 
L. Snyder; Grasper, Robert D. 
Bowlby; Calif, Chester A. Dreher; 
Pasha, August E. Miller; Kahtib, Ira 
A. LaBar; Vizier, Albert H. Mit- 
chell. 

The officers of the Malta Club are: 
Acting President and Secretary, Al- 
fred L. Snyder; Treasurer, Chester 
A. Dreher. 

In St. John's Sisterhood, No. 46, Dames of Malta, H. of 
St. J., the women of the Stroudsburgs find a splendid 
opportunity to fraternize. Dames of Malta were organized 
June 3, 1907. The officers are: Protector, Nettie Hastie; 
Queen Esther, Alice Spragle, Angle Building; Ruth, Mary 
Miller; Naomi, Ida Druckenmiller; Keeper of Archives, 



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Louisa N. Shick; Burser, Johanna Frisbie; Herald, Flo- 
rence Mann; Deputy Herald, Mary Everitt; First Color 
Bearer, Nora Ferguson; Second Color Bearer, Lucy Smith: 
First Messenger, Ella Altemose; Second Messenger, Lizzie 
Brands; First Guard, Ella Hoffman; Second Guard, May 
Brands; Trustees — Six Months, Lydia Smith; Twelve 
Months, Cora Brown; Eighteen Months, Emma Chambers; 
Delinquent Committee: Mary Everitt, Almeda Stackhouse, 
Emma Chambers; Deputy for 1915: 
Lydia Smith; Press Agent, Louisa 
Shick; Captain of First Degree Team, 
Sarah Plattenburg; Captain of Sec- 
ond Degree Team, Lydia Smith; Cap- 
tain of Funeral Team, Sarah Platten- 
burg. This Sisterhood helped insti- 
tute the Bangor Lodge of Dames of 
Malta. 

The Elks, famous the country over 
for their closely intimate relations 
with one another, are represented in 
Monroe County in East Stroudsburg 
Lodge, No. 319, B. P. O. E., insti- 
tuted on June 28, 1895. The present 
officers are: Exalted Ruler, Dr. C. 
G. Cross; Esteemed Leading Knight, 
Paul Overfield; Esteemed Loyal 
Knight, Harry J. Dilts; Esteemed 
Lecturing Knight, Graydon D. Hoff- 
man; Chaplan, Prof. E. L. Kemp; Es- 
quire, Dr. F. J. Baer; Secretary, 
James S. Bunnell; Treasurer, Louis 
Glass, Sr. ; Inner Guard, Eli R. 
Travis; Tyler, Charles W. Smiley; 
Trustees: H. S. Puterbaugh, C. H. 
Drake, H. S. Smoyer. 

Malta Temple, Stroudsburg, is not 
merely a building reflecting credit upon all of Eastern 
Pennsylvania, but stands as a monument to the enter- 
prise of the local Commandery of the Ancient and Illus- 
trious Order of the Knights of Malta, St. John's Com- 
mandery, No. 186. The Elks have splendid quarters in the 
Monroe County National Bank Building, East Stroudsburg. 
The Patriotic Sons of America numerically and in 
many other respects belong 
to the strongest fraternal or- 
ganizations of this section. 
Washington Camp, No. 236, 
Pa., P. O. S. of A., of Strouds- 
burg, was organized in Octo- 
ber, 1887, with the following 
officers: Past President, R. 
L. Long; President, N. C. 
Miller; Vice President, Chas. 
Trach; Master of Forms, J. 
F. Bush; Conductor, Geo. N. 
Childs; Treasurer, W. W. 
Mill: Recording Secretary, 
C. W. Holbrook; Financial I 
Secretary, Alvin Trach; In- 
ner Guard, L. Abies; Outer 
Guard, We Ratcliffe; Right 
Sentinel, L. Walton; Left 
Sentinel, C. Keiser; Trus- 
tees: N. C. Miller, A. C. 
Jansen, N. W. Hill. 

The above officers were in- 




St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Tannersville, Pa. 
Rev. Edwin Dingman, Pastor 




Interior of the East Stroudsburg M. E. Church 
Rev. D. L. McCartney, Pastor 



ident, Roger L. Christian; Master of Forms, Percy Mar- 
vin; Financial Secretary, Arthur L. Heller; Recording Sec- 
retary, Charles S. Christian; Treasurer, E. B. Carlton; 
Conductor, Lloyd Kresge; Inspector, Archie Possinger; 
Guard, Raymond Snyder; Right Sentinel, Paul Ziegenfus; 
Left Sentinel, Walter Smith; Chaplain, Henry Ruster. 

One of the strongest bodies at Tannersville, Pa., is the 
Washington Camp, No. 473, Pa., P. O. S. of A., whose 
officers are: Past President, R. C. 
Shook; President, J. M. Shellenber- 
ger; Vice President, Floyd Hay; Mas- 
ter of Forms, Clyde Beehler; Con- 
ductor, Granville Sniffer; Inspector, 
G. F. Heller; Guard, Claude Warner; 
Sentinels: Walter Slutter, Isaac 
Frantz, Russell Werkheiser and Har- 
ry Bisbing; Treasurer, A. A. Wert- 
man, M. D.; Financial Secretary, 
Adam Greenzweig; Recording Secre- 
tary, H. E. Werkheiser; Trustees: 
J. M. Shellenberger, R. C. Shook and 
Otto Ruehlman. 

This Camp was instituted on Octo- 
ber 26, 1889, by Camp No. 318, of 
Tobyhanna, Pa., E. J. Meyers, Dis- 
trict President. The following were 
the first officers: Past President, H. 
L. Keeler; President, W. A. Miller; 
Vice President, Elmer Warner; Mas- 
ter of Forms, Daniel Williams; Con- 
ductor, Joseph Werkheiser; Record- 
ing Secretary, J. Lessig; Financial 
Secretary, W. J. Hamblin; Treasur- 
er, Peter Warner; Inspector, David 
B. Warner; Guard, Addison Learn; 
Chaplain, Rev. G. B. Smith; Trus- 
tees: Nathan Daily and Wm. Storm. This Camp has paid 
for death benefits the sum of $1,070, and for sick benefits 
the handsome total of $4,553. The assets include real 
estate and furnishings of an approximate valuation of 
$4,000; total assets over $7,000. Membership now 300. 

Washington Camp, No. 568, Pa., P. O. S. of A., was 
instituted on October 29, 1890, at Analomink, Pa. The 

present officers are: Past 
President, Albert Pensyl; 
President, Otto Lesoine; Vice 
President, Walter Persback- 
er; Master of Forms, A. H. 
LaBar; Conductor, T. B. 
Luckey; Inspector, Wm. L. 
Lesoine; Outer Guard, Fred 
G. Detrick; Treasurer, G. B. 
Decker; Financial Secretary, 
L. A. Emery; Recording Sec- 
retary, Robert W. Bates; 
Trustees: E. V. LaBar, W. D. 
Bates, T. B. Luckey; Right 
Sentinel, W. D. Bates; Left 
Sentinel, Lewis Brish. 

Washington Camp, No. 579, 
Pa., P. O. S. of A., Canaden- 
sis, Pa., first met on April 12. 
1913. The officers are: Ly- 
man Price, Past President; 
C. J. Price, President; Frank 
Backmier, Master of Forms; 



stalled in their respective offices by State President, R. D. J. Bender, Recording Secretary; M. K. Price, Financial 

T. S. Hallowell, in A. O. Greenwald's Hall on October 6, Secretary, F. B. Mikels, Treasurer; H. C. Lauer, Conduc- 

1887. There were sixteen charter applicants present at tor; Benjamin Price, Inspector; Arthur Vernoy, Guard; 

this meeting. The present officers are: Past President, Ira S. Price, Chaplain; S. B. Bush, Assistant Recording 

Russell J. Williams; President, Harry Transue; Vice Pres- Secretary; C. C. Lightner, Right Sentinel; Fred Krummell, 



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Left Sentinel; Trustees: C. C. Lightner, Lyman Price 
and M. K. Price. 

The Red Men are well represented in several Lodges. 
Sagamon Tribe, No. 352, Improved Order of Red Men, 
was instituted March 27, 1895, with 
87 charter members. The report 
of October 1, 1914, showed a mem- 
bership of 210 and the assets of 
the Tribe approximating $5000. 
The present officers are: Sachem, 
Charles Long; Senior Sagamore, 
Leroy Decker; Junior Sagamore, 
Garfield Lewis; Prophet, Layton 
Nauman; Chief of Records, W. E. 
VanVliet; Keeper of Wampum, 
Phillip Rulster, Sr.; Collector of 
Wampum, W. H. Rockefeller; 
Trustees: Charles H. Crowe, David 
Carlton, Carl Brown. 

The women are represented in 
Sagamon Council No. 98, Degree 
of Pocahontas, which was institu- 
ted on November 26, 1912. The 




present officers are: Pocahontas, 
Mrs. Anna Oney; Wenonah, Mrs. 

Anna Werkheiser; Prophetess, Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church, Coolbaugh, Pa 

Mrs Lizzie Werkheiser; Ponhatan, Mrs. Clara Heller; 
Keeper of Records, Mrs. Ella Daubert; Keeper of Wam- 
pum Mrs. Ethel Lanterman; Collector of Wanipum, Miss 
Flossie Evans; First Scout, Mrs. Ella Ebert; Second 
Scout, Mrs. Emma Dailey; Guard of the Forest, Mrs. 
Elnora Mayers; Guard of the Tepee, 
Mrs. Susan Transue; First Runner, 
Mrs. Josephine Pipher; Second Run- 
ner, Mrs. Lillian Bird; First War- 
rior, Miss Flora Garis; Second War- 
rior, Miss Edith Brown; Third War- 
rior, Mrs. Gertrude Neyhart; Fourth 
Warrior, Mrs. Mable Garis; First 
Councilor, Mrs. Jennie Newhart; 
Second Councilor, Mrs. Anna Henry; 
Trustee for 18 months, Mrs. Alice 
Heller; Trustee for 12 months, Mrs. 
Serena Kunkle; Trustee for six 
months, Mrs. Mable Garis. 
Analomink Tribe, No. 536, Improved m. e. Church, Mt. Pocono, Pa 

Red Men, was instituted on July 27, 1911. The Treasurer, Lucinda Williams; Guide, Mae Bunnell In 




Grand Lodge from the Mountainhome Lodge, and those 
who have faith in this section as a Convention Centre, 
the Grand Lodge will meet in Stroudsburg this spring. 
Mountainhome Lodge, No. 684, I. O. O. F., of Pa., was 
instituted on December 23, 1869. 
The present officers are: Noble 
Grand, Arthur W. Case; Vice 
Grand, Herman J. Gravel; Treas- 
urer, Samuel B. Mikels; Financial 
Secretary, Clarence F. Hess; Re- 
cording Secretary, Casper Buck; 
Trustees, J. A. Seguine, W. D. 
Yothers, Frank Mills; Representa- 
tive to Grand Ledge, J. A. Seguin-; 
Representative to Orphans Home, 
Samuel Cooper. 

The West End has an active body 
in Effort Lodge, No. 1102, I. O. of 
O. F., at Effort, Pa., with the fol- 
lowing officers: Noble Grand, Wm. 
H. Shupp; Vice Grand, Homer A. 
Shupp; Secretary, David Frantz; 
Treasurer, Clarence M. Werkheis- 
er; 3rd Mem. Relief, Chas. F. An- 
drews; R. S. N. G., Harry M. 
Schoch; L. S. N. G., Stewart E. 
Shupp; War., Howell H. Hawk; Con., F. Martin Shupp; 
R. S. S., Lloyd J. Arnold; O. G., Harvey F. Dorshimer; 
I G., Austin Hill; Chaplain, Raymond D. Everitt; R. S. V. 
G., John R. Felker; L. S. V. G., C. Alvin Rader. 

Monroe Council, No. 131, Daughters of Liberty, of East 
Stroudsburg, Pa., was instituted on 
March 10, 1902, in Miller Hall, 
Stroudsburg, with 60 charter mem- 
bers. On April 1, 1914 the meeting 
place was changed to the new Ma- 
sonic Hall, East Stroudsburg. The 
present membership exceeds 200. The 
Officers of the Council are: Councilor, 
Lizzie Oney; Associate Councilor, 
Ella Ebert; Vice Councilor, Flossie 
Kresge; Associate Vice Councilor, 
Anna Werkheiser; Recording Secre- 
tary, Elnora Palmer; Associate Re- 
cording Secretary, Ellsworth Palmer; 
Financial Secretary, Flora Garis; 



pr^en" officers are: Sachem, George Young; Junior Saga- side Guard, Cora Stine; Outside Guard, Iona Marvin; Jr 

more E V LeBar- Senior Sagamore, Stanley Hallet; Ex-Councilor, Harlan E. Heller; Associate Jr. Ex-Council- 

Prophet William Lesoine; Chief of Records, Robert W. or, Jennie Neyhart; Trustees, Mable Garis, Olive Swink 

Bates- Keeper of Wampum, W. D. Bates; Representative, and Anna Oney; Deputy State Councilor, Elnora Palmer; 

E. V. LeBar; Trustees: William pianist . Verna Wildrick; Repre- 
Lesoine, G. A. Vaughn and E. V. 
LeBar. 

Mountainhome Camp, No. 

Woodmen of B der of Independent Americans 



7780, Modern 
America was organized at 
Mountainhome, Pa., in March 
1913. The present officers are: 
Consul, Lewis Huguenuin; Ad- 
visor, Irvin Shook; Banker, E. 
R. Heller; Clerk, C. F. Hess; 
Escort, Arch Smith; Watchman, 
Jacob Hoke; Sentry, Frank 
Sebring; Trustees, Arthur Bar- 
tleson, Jacob Englert and Frank 
Sebring. 

The Odd Fellows are doing 
the things in Monroe County. 
Through the efforts of J. A. Se- 
guine, Representative to the 




sentatives, Gilbert Palmer and 
Ida Strunk. 

Pocono Council, No. 1008, Or- 



Dungan Chapel— M. E. Church, Reeders, Pa. 
Rev. W. E. Harkness. Pastor 



was instituted as Pocono Coun- 
cil, No. 1008, Jr. O. U. A. M., 
on Mar. 16, 1895, with 52 mem- 
bers. In 1904 it transferred its 
membership to the Order of In- 
dependent Americans, retaining 
the title "Pocono Council." The 
present membership is nearl> 
300 in good standing. The pres- 
ent officers are: Councilor, Wm. 
D. Stein; Vice Councilor, Jesse 
Albert; Recording Secretary, 
Gilbert Palmer; Asst. Recording 
Secretary, Floyd E. VanWhy; 
Financial Secretary, Michael R. 



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Ransbury; Treasurer, John F. Pierson; Conductor, Win. 
Li. Ruff; Warden, Norman C. Pipher; Inside Sentinel, 
Eugene B. Strunk: Outside Sentinel, Milton D. Keller; 
Chaplain, Win. T. Wolf; Jr. Past Councilor, Adam Clark; 
Trustes, Geo. D. Michaels, Chester A. Dreher and Wn, 
T. Wolf. 

Fort Brown, No. 609, Royal Arcanum, was instituted 
in Greenwald's Hall, Stroudsburg, Pa., on August 4, 1881. 
P. M. Deputy Grand Regent, Dr. J. A. Home of Mauch 
( hunk presided and acted as the Instituting Officers. The 
following are the names of the first officers, 
elected to office for the year ending Decem- 
ber 31, 1881: J. W. Cook, Regent; Oscar 
Dreher, Vice Regent; P. S. William, Ora- 
tor; E. K. Wyckoff, Past Regent; S. A. 
Snyder, Secretary; P. B. Keller, Collector; 
Linford March. Treasurer; J. E. Snyder, 
Chaplain; J. M. Posten, Guide; J. F. 
Mosier, Warden; N. H. Shafer, Sentry. 
Present Officials are: Regent, O. R. Shafer: 
V., R.. Lewis H. Bush; Orator, Amzi Y. Hoff- 
man; Secretary, Dr. N. C. Miller; Treasurer, 
Robert B. Keller; Collector, Theodore C. 
Brown; Chaplain, James Posten; Guide, D. 
Wesley Lee; Warden, W. W. Warne; Sen- 
try, Frank S. Bush; Past Regent, Samuel 
S. Wolfe; Trustees: Robert Brown, Sr., 
H. B. Drake and Dr. C. M. Brownell. 




Chester G. Booth, Manager 
New York Piano Stool & Mfg. Co., 
East Stroudsburg, Whose Product 



77, Division of Pennsylvania, S. of Y. U. S. A., was or- 
ganized February 24, 1894. Death has called eight of 
the members to an eternal rest. These were Gilbert H. 
Mood, James M. Nauman, William R. Slutter, Jerome 
Brewer, Jacob Nace, E. R. Houck, Claude B. Heeter and 
Theodore Kulp. The present officers are: Captain, Allen 
Werkheiser; Past Commander, Fred C. Fatzinger; Com- 
mander, Edward Repsher; Sr. Y. Commander, LeRoy 
Deubler; Jr. Vice Commander, Edward Cressman; Patri- 
otic Instructor, Watson Birch; Chaplain, Marvin Smith; 
Secretary, Claude Werkheiser; Treasurer, 
Emery A. Harman; Guide, Luther Smith: 
Color Guard, William Repsher; Inside 
Guide, Emanuel Altemose; Outside Guide, 
William Starner; Camp Council, H. T. 
Werkheiser, W. K. Nevil and John Hull. 

There remain a number of other organi- 
zations to be mentioned, but correct data 
are not at hand. Some general organiza- 
tions, not typically fraternal, do their part 
in making Monroe County a factor socially. 
Among them must be counted those in- 
tended to stimulate civic pride. Strouds- 
burg has the Civic Club with the following 
officers: Mrs. William Dolby Palmer, Presi- 
dent; Mrs. Edward Calkins, Yice President; 
Mrs. D. Webster Coxe, Second Vice Presi- 
dent; Mrs. W. R. Levering, Recording Sec- 



Stroudsburg Aerie, No. 1106, Fraternal Reaches Homes All Over the Union re tary; Mrs. Steward Sniffer, Correspond- 
ing Secretary; Miss Emma Shay, Treasurer. 

The Borough Improvement Society, of East Strouds- 
burg, has the following officers: Mrs. T. F. Rhodes, Presi- 
dent; Mrs. Jesse Ransberry, Vice President; Mrs. Harry 
Olldorf, Treasurer; Mrs. William Moser, Secretary. 

As a military center Monroe County is receiving at- 
tention through the excellent work done by Co. G, Thir- 
teenth Infantry, N. G. P. which was organized and mus- 
tered into service on November 18, 1913, by Colonel F. W. 

Stilwell and staff of 
Scranton. Although lo- 
cated in East Strouds- 
burg, it is purely a Mon- 
roe county organization 
and any young man of 
good character who is a 
resident of the county is 
eligible to membership. 
The company owns its 
own Armory which is a 
frame building sixty four 
by one hundred feet, 
containing a drill floor, 
sixty four by eighty five 
feet, without any ob- 
struction of any kind, a 
Hub room fifteen by 
thirty four, a first ser- 
geant's room, eight by 
fifteen, Officers' room, 
eight by fifteen, ladies' 
dressing room, and two 
toilets; with large equip- 
ment room overhead: a basement, fifteen by sixty four, 
containing the furnace. The company keeps its full time 
quota filled at all times beside having a large waiting 
list in reserve. The Officers of the company are as fol- 
lows: Captain. George A. Dunning: First Lieutenant, 
Clarence B. Altemose; Second Lieutenant, Giles H. Bur- 
lingame; First Sergeant. Paul Overfield; Quarter Mas- 
ter Sergeant. Newton S. Brittain. Jr.; Sergeants. Philip 
L. Voss, Eli R. Travis, Layton M. Nauman, A. E. Miller; 



Order of Eagles, was instituted in that borough on May, 
26, 1905. The organization is now quartered on Main 
street, with two floors, the first of which is handsomely 
furnished for club quarters and the second one for lodge 
purposes. The present membership is over 222, making 
one of the strongest fraternal orders of the county. The 
cfficers: Past Worthy President, E. J. Robinson; Worthy 
President, W. E. Crouse; Worthy Yice President, E. Platz; 
Worthy Chaplain, Ed. Butz; Worthy Secretary, Geo. D. 
Michaels; Worthy Treas- 
urer. W. J. Morton; Wor- 
thy Conductor, Walter 
Haney; Worthy Inside 
Guard, Ed. Nixon; Wor- 
thy Outside Guard. Har- 
ry Frantz; Worthy Trus- 
tees, P. W. P., S. B. Cor- 
rell; P. W. P.. A. F. 
Everitt; P. W. P., Geo. 
W. Nevil; Worthy Physi- 
cian, H. S. Van Etten; 
Secretary House Com- 
mittee, P. W. P., A. F. 
Everitt. The lodge is 
prosperous. 

The Sons of Veterans 
are organized as a bene- 
ficial order, as well as a 
social and patriotic body. 

Their mottoes are "Fra- 
ternity, Charity and Loy- 
alty." They are banded 
together to perpetuate 

the memories of the men who wore the blue in the war 
from 1861-1865, forgetting all things of ill, yet remember- 
ing the good. This is not like other organizations in 
regard to securing members, as they have only a limited 
number to draw from. To become a member, one must 
be the son or a grandson of a veteran of the Civil War. 
The Sons of Veterans are a uniformed body and have a 
company of Reserves. Quite naturally they meet in the 
G. A. R. Hall, Stroudsburg. Captain Warnick Camp. No. 




VAN ALLEN FAMILY GROUP 
'This is tin- Life," Said Rev. Dr. C. E. Van Allen, of Echo Lake, Pa., as He 
Pointed t<> His Family of Monroe Countians and Their Descendants 



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Corporals: Jerome B. Brewer, Preston Stem, Vernon Wal- 
lace, William Bentzoni, Chester D. Voss and J. N. Smith. 
The Acme Hose Company, No. 1, East Stroudsburg, 
Pa., represents one of the prize winning, fire fighting or- 
ganizations of this County. It was organized on April 2, 
1890, and has a membership of 60. Their equipment con- 
sists' of a Motor Chemical and Hose Truck and a Hook 
and Ladder Truck. The present officers are: President. 
George D. Clark; Vice President, William H. Merring; 
Financial Secretary, N. J. Smith; Recording Secretary. 
Preston Stem; Chief, C. P. Smith; Assistant Chief, Wil- 
liam A. Hughes; Foreman, Frank Walters; Assistant 
Foreman, Calvin Groner: Property Clerk, M. J. Cullather; 
Trustees, C. S. Hoffman and J. H. Zacharias. 

Stroudsburg has two fire companies, one the Chemical 
Co., No. 1, and the other the Phoenix Hose Company, No. 
2. The Chemical Co. No. 1 was incorporated on February 
19, 1910 and has among its members Charles P. White, 
who is Assistant Chief of the Fire Department of Strouds- 
burg. The Foreman of the Company is C. L. Wallace; 
Assistant Foreman, A. B. Neyhart; President, S. E. Shull; 
Vice President, J. L. Harbaugh; Secretary, A. F. Everitt; 
Treasurer, G. D. Michaels. Both Companies possess good 
fire fighting aparratus. The same holds true of the East 
Stroudsburg Fire Department. These data have been 
compiled from information secured by 
direct appeal to the various organiza- 
tions in this County. If any have failed 
to respond, it was not the intention of 
the writer to slight the 
showing made by the fra- 
ternal organizations of 
Monroe County and other 
bodies aiming to enrich 
the social opportunities of 
this section. It was the 
purpose to give as com- 
plete a record as possi- 
ble. It is believed that 
this has been accomplish- 
ed with the co-operation 
of those who responded. 
The social side of the 
life in "Pennsylvania's 
Kavcred Region" de- 



rives its opportunities from the high standard set by the 
home, church, fraternal and general spirit of good fellow- 
ship prevailing here and hereabouts. There is a social 
side to every home, as there is a social side to churches 
aiming high enough in the love of fellow man. And there 
is a social side to every organization, whether fraternal 
or otherwise, in this section which makes for the better- 
ment of all around life in this region. Only recently 
Louis Rupprecht, President of the German Society of 
Monroe County, succeeded in the almost hopeless task 
of organizing an Oratorio Society, comprising some 200 
members of the best musical talent in this coun- 
ty. The social side of Monroe County is also 
shown in the constant assembling of several 
generations of one family 
who keep up the spirit of 
recognition for their home 
section by joining their eld- 
ers in fitting reunions. In 
this article is shown just one 
such group, of which there 
happened to be a picture on 
hand. It is the family of the 
Rev. Dr. C. E. Van Allen of 
Echo Lake. The reunion was 
held only recently and proves 
the longevity of our citizens 
in this county and in our 
neighboring territory. Dr. 
Van Allen is only one of 
hundreds to whom we 
might point as samples 
of continued home life 
in this one region. It 
would take, however, 
too long to enumerate 
them all or to hunt 
their names. In this 
edition there appears a 
group picture of octo- 
genarians. All of these, 
taken last year, are 
living with one 
exception, the 
Rev. B. F. Apple. 
Secretary of the 




Present and Past Officers and Members of Captain Warn! ck Camp, No. 77, Division of Pennsylvania, S. of V., U. S. A. 
Reading from left to right: Top Row— Edward Cressman, Claude Werkheiser. Middle Row— Edward 
Cobb, J. M. Weisgarver, George Biggs, Edward Repsher, Fred Fatzinger, Amzi Werkheiser, John Dingman, Oliver 
Heeter. Front Row— Milton Everitt, Roy Nevil, Watson Birch, LeRoy Deubler, Arlington Werkheiser, Elmer 
Stein, John Martz, Harry Heller, William Nevil. 



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organization, having passed into the great beyond. As 
Rev. Dr. Van Allen came in close touch with him fre- 
quently in the early years of the late Mr. Apple's career, 
and as Dr. Van Allen also knows a great many of the 
people who have lived in this county for years, it perhaps 
is not amiss to briefly state the following in compliance 
with a request of the editor of "The 
Bells." 

Rev. Chas. E. Van Allen, M. A., 
D. D., has been a conspicuous per- 
sonage in the annals of Monroe 
County and Middle Smithfield for 
the last fifty years. His activities 
have mostly been along Religion and 
Temperance lines. 

The Doctor supported himself all 
the way through his academic or col- 
lege preparatory course, through his 
collage course at Union College, 
Schnectady, N. Y., and through his 
Theological course at Princeton 
Theological Seminary and graduated 
with the highest honors at each of 
these institutions. 

Dr. Van Allen began his lifework 
in the Gospel Ministry immediately 
upon his graduation from the Semi- 
nary in the early part of 1865, just 
fifty years ago this spring, though 
he had been licensed to preach a 
year before he graduated by the 
Presbytery of Albany, N. Y. He was 
sent to the Middle Smithfield Presbyterian Church by 
Rev. Dr. McGill, a professor of Princeton Theological 
Seminary and chairman of the committee of supplies. 

After a while the young minister extended his preach- 
ing in other fields; first at Sand Hill, a union church. 
Highland Grove Mission Church was built by him, assist- 
ed by others. Palmer's 




Grace Reformed Church, Tannersville, Pa 
Rev. J. M. Shellenberger, Pastor 



in men and in properties, for Dr. Van Allen is only a little 
short of eighty years of age. 

Recently I had occasion to meet Robert H. Ace, who 
was appointed by the Court as Mayor of East Strouds- 
burg on December 16, 1914, succeeding the late Mayor 
Frank Smiley. In recalling this incident, I merely aim 
to bring out the fact of the cordial 
relations existing between those 
who act in an official capacity for 
either of the two leading boroughs 
of Monroe County. Mr. Ace was 
hobnobbing on a matter of business 
with Mayor Edinger of our own 
town. He is a native of the County, 
having seen the light of day in 
Paradise Township, is the superin- 
tendent of the Stroudsburg, East 
Stroudsburg, Portland, Mount Beth- 
el, Pa., and Columbia, N. J., district 
for the Pennsylvania Utilities Com- 
pany. He was in fact their first em- 
ployee in this district. Previous to 
that time he was a member of the 
firm of Mosier & Ace, doing a good 
real estate business. In men like 
Mayor Ace of East Stroudsburg, the 
business relations between the var- 
ious communities in the County lead 
to a better social understanding be- 
tween the various residents. And 
this is what all of Monroe County 
Is striving for, namely, to make the 
social and business relations of its inhabitants one unit 
of power for the upbuilding of this section. 

Just as I am about to close this article for lack of 
further information and space, I am enabled to add through 
the kind offices of J. A. Seguine, that booster merchant of 
Cresco, the following facts: The Odd Fellows have in 
Stroudsburg, in Fort Penn Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., an 

old and historic lodge with 



Swamp, now Wooddale 
Church, was built by him. 
But his labors were not en- 
tirely confined to the liter- 
ary and scholastic world 
and to preaching the gos- 
pel; he was a man of af- 
fairs as well. It was he 
who raised the money and 
built the belfry and sur- 
mounted it with quadruple 
spires and when the funds 
ran out, he hung the bell 
in the tower himself and 
painted on the card which 
hangs on the front of the 
tower, giving the date of 
the erection of the church. 
1833, the time of the addi 
tion of the tower and the 
hanging of the bell. There 
are only two hand lettered 
bells in this section of this 
County, the one above men- 
tioned and the Sand Hill 
bell, which was given to the 
Sand Hill Church by Joseph 
Overfleld. After twenty-flve 
years he resolved to go to some place to educate his grow- 
ing family He only remained away a short time; he had 
bought the Echo Lake home and farm and he was needed 
at home. He has seen the church to which he ministered 
years ago completely changed. He has also seen changes 




"'£»£?£ 



Seventh Day Adventist Church 
Second Street, Stroudsburg, Pa 



sturdy old Stro u d s b u r g 
stock in its list of Past 
Grands, living and dead. L. 
M. Dreher is secretary. It 
certainly holds a distinctive 
place among the 1100 lodges 
in the State of Pennsylvan- 
ia. Analomink Lodge, No. 
946, I. O. O. F., of East 
Stroudsburg, is growing 
steadily, has splendid quar- 
ters and deserves more than 
this passing notice. But I 
can merely refer now to the 
names of David Carlton, 
Noble Grand, and David 
Van Vliet, Secretary. Neola 
Lodge, No. 827, I. O. O. P., 
is located at Snydersville, 
and Pocono Lodge, No. 10S6. 
I O O F.. is at Tanners- 
ville. No. 104, I. O. O. F., 
at Kunkletown, is the new- 
est lodge, its number coming 
from another lodge which 
surrendered its charter, 
making seven lodges with 
nearly 800 members. The 
Rachael Brodhead Lodge of 
Rebekahs, meeting in the 
Fort Penn, I. O. O. F., 
lodge rooms, at Strouds- 
burg, will entertain the Re- 
bekah Assembly of about 
350 delegates in May, when 
the Grand Lodge session is held in Stroudsburg. 

And now I extend greetings to John M. Decker, of 
Stroudsburg, and A. E. Eckert, of East Stroudsburg. Demo- 
cratic successors to Samuel B. Dreher, of Stroudsburg, and 
N. S. Brittain, Jr., of East Stroudsburg, the present post- 
masters, feeling satisfied that "all Is well that ends well." 



95 



The Turn Farm, Near North Water Gap, Pa. 

AFTER NEARLY A CENTURY IN ONE FAMILY, IS TODAY THE PROUD POSSESSION OF 
CHARLES R. TURN, A MAN ACTIVE IN BUSINESS LIFE 



R 



EMEM BERING the old saying that the older a farm 
is the poorer it will prove to be, one points with 
pleasure to a straight contradiction of this as- 
sumption, as one directs the glance of the visitor 
to Monroe County to the Turn Farm. Located, as it is, 
about midway between North Water Gap and Bush- 
kili, the farm commands a marvelous view of the surround- 
ing hills and of the valleys stretching 
through the Delaware Valley region. 
The property is today one of the show 
places of this section, already rich in 
agricultural properties of considerable 
value. 

All this may be said to be due to 
the hobby of Charles R. Turn, a native 
of Monroe County, who finds time to 
devote some attention to real farming, 
while ever attentive to his varied busi- 
ness interests. Mr. Turn is the gen- 
ial, ever happy, general manager of the 
International Boiler Works Company, 
of East Stroudsburg, Pa., President of 
the Stroudsburg Creamery Company, 
and affiliated with other business and 
hanking interests. He was born on 
August 16, 1865, received schooling for 
the activities of his successful career 
at Blair Hall, N. J., and at Eastman's 
Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. 
Y. In 1885 he became connected with 
the East Stroudsburg Glass Company, going at the end 
ot' five years with the International Boiler Works Co., of 
which he became General Manager in 1902. In 1910 he 
also became Treasurer, holding both offices to the present 
day. 

Mr. Turn is anything but a gentleman farmer. He is a 




Chas. R. Turn, Successful Gentleman 
Farmer and Busy Man of Affairs 



his father, John Turn, and became the property of the 
present owner some nine years ago. There are over 200 
acres of practically all tillable land, splendid farm build- 
ings, including a modern dairy barn with every late im- 
provement, comprising also the famous James stall and 
overhead carrying system. While Mr. Turn has every 
facility for general farming, he expects to devote his at- 
tention to dairying largely, special- 
izing in Holstein cattle. He now has 
some 24 heads of well bred stock, which 
will be increased as fast as judicious 
development permits. 

In the hog family the Berkshire pigs 
have the lead at the Turn Farm, the 
stock including three thoroughbred 
sows and one thoroughbred boar. Every 
mprovement has been added to make 
the hog pens conform to the general 
high standard of Turn Farm methods. 
A competent superintendent looks after 
the details, while Mr. Turn himself 
can be found on the premises at every 
spare moment. 

He has a splendid home in the old 
homestead property and much of the 
week-end time is spent there. The 
property is not far from the Delaware 
River, is located in a region dotted with 
bungalows owned by people from the 
large cities who spend their summers 
in this vicinity, has every appearance of being a gentle- 
man's home, but in reality is the busy scene of a busy man 
who believes that it pays to make farming pay. It is prob- 
ably with this end in view, that Mr. Turn has during the 
past year made improvements that should enable him to 
achieve things in the farming line, just as he has succeed- 




Modern Stalls for Horses and Blooded Cattle at Turn Farm 

man who believes in making his country property pay. 
It has always been a good farm, the land being first settled 
by John Turn, his grandfather. It was later purchased by 



Showing James Stalls and Equipment in Barn at Turn Farm 

ed in accomplishing for other interests, of which he is 
active manager or presiding official. On the opposite page 
is shown a panoramic view of Mr. Turn's model farm. 



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parent to the intelligent buyer that price cannot al- 
ways be the first consideration if best results are 
to be obtained. George C. Hughes, proprietor of The 
Hughes Press, East Stroudsburg, Pa., has attained an 
enviable record in the printing business as a producer of 
fine work. Facilities are such as to insure the lowest 
prices consistent with perfection in the finished product. 

Pointing with pride to this edition of "The Bells, Ring- 
ing the Message of Progress in Monroe County and Tribu- 
tary Country," as a product of his shops, printing, bind- 
ing and most of the art work was done here, the 
fact that Mr. Hughes has made his home in Mon- 
roe County for years may account for superior effort on 
his part in proving to the world at large that this section 
of Pennsylvania is really worthy of being classed with the 
progressive centers of the land. 

It is only a sample of what can be and is being done 
right along in the plant of The Hughes Press. Compara- 
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is really the largest in general effect ever produced here 
and in many other sections of the state. The undertaking 
has required more time than similar orders for a book- 
let or catalog of its size would need, when all copy and 
printing plates are prepared in advance. 

Independent of any news- 
paper, the greatest booster 
number of Monroe County 
had to be created — as it 
were — out of nothing and 
goes forth to proclaim the 
message of progress in a 
creditable manner. It like- 
wise presents the cause of 
an industry at its best, tell 
ing only of achievement, and 
leaving it to the reader to 
pass judgment on the results 
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Panorama View at Blue Mountain Poultry Farm, Stroudsburg, Pa., Showing Nearly All Buildings, Except One Separate Section and the Home 



BLUE MOUNTAIN POULTRY FAR 

STROUDSBURG, PA., SPECIALIZES IN SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 



THERE is no question but that the Leghorn family is 
the greatest egg-producer known and the Single 
Comb White Leghorn is the most popular breed of 
that family. They lay a large white egg which is known 
to the trade as "Nearby Hennery Whites." They often 
command a premium of ten cents per dozen above other 
eggs. The Leghorn egg is remarkably fertile and they 
hatch better than any other breed. One year's record at 
the Blue Mountain Poultry Farm, Stroudsburg, Pa., shows 
that the fertility for the season was 91 per cent, and for 
April 95 per cent. Individual hatches were as high as 85 
per cent, of all eggs set. This farm has about 3,000 White 
Leghorn hens, the pullet eggs going to the market. Hatch- 
ing is done from the two year olds. All standard require- 
ments are met; many choice birds could hold their own 
in the show room, but the business is primarily market 
poultry, catering to the trade for fresh eggs and dressed 
poultry; also the shipment of eggs for hatching and day 
old chicks in large quantities. 

W. H. Truslow, manager of the Blue Mountain Poultry 
Farm, procured his foundation stock from some of the 
foremost breeders in the country and is a firm believer 
in careful sorting. His son, C. E. Truslow, has given val- 
uable assistance to Mr. Truslow in his efforts to please the 
many patrons. Unlimited range is one of the features here 
and valuable in the poultry business for the securing of 
sturdy stock. Mr. Truslow came to Stroudsburg in 1889, 
and is recognized as a representative citizen of Monroe 
County. Choice table eggs reach the family table of lead- 
ing citizens in many parts of the East through his farm. 
The Blue Mountain Poultry Farm management be- 
lieves in fresh air and all houses are built accordingly. 
The farm is located in the mountains of Monroe County. 
Pa., and is only three miles from the far-famed Delaware 
Water Gap. It is within a mile of the Stroudsburg post 
office and only a short walk from the Water Gap trolley. 
It is made up of rolling land, both cleared and thinly 
wooded. There are many springs of pure water, a pontl 



of several acres and a large mountain stream borders the 
property, so all the pens have plenty of shade and water, 
making an ideal place to develop strong and healthy 
stock. There are three railroads, namely: the D., L. & 
W., the Pennsylvania and Erie, so they can ship promptly 
in any direction. The feed room is a model of complete- 
ness, having storage for five cars of feed, digester, mills, 
cleaners, mixers, etc. The wet mixer takes feed from 







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Attractive Home Occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Truslow 
Highland Park, Stroudsburg, Pa. 

the bins without any manual labor and delivers it in the 
wagon at the rate of twenty bushels per minute. Elec- 
tricity is used for both power and light. Incubators have 
a capacity of 20,000 eggs. 

On account of the thousands of city boarders in this 
vicinity, visitors must be restricted. But the management 
will be glad to welcome you if you write and make an 
appointment. 

The poultry business was started in 1887. Breeders 
and eggs have been shipped all over this country and to 
foreign lands, while dressed poultry goes to New York, 

Philadelphia, the summer re- 
sorts and private families. 
They have been shipped as far 
as Chicago and Milwaukee. 
The number of chickens hatch- 
ed would make an aggregate 
of over half a million. What 
a mountain of poultry and what 
an opportunity to pick choice 
breeders. Most people like to 
gather eggs, but if they had to 
gather those at the Blue Moun- 
tain Poultry Farm they would 
find it quite an undertaking, as 
they have as many as 2, 000 per 
day. It is interesting to watch 
the feeding of the chickens and 
the gathering of the eggs. 

For further particulars ad- 
dress. William II. Truslow, 
Blue Mountain Poultry Farm, 



A Sectional View at Blue Mountain Poultry Farm, Not Included in Panorama Above Stroudsburg, Pa. 

99 




"THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME" IN EAST STROUDSBURG 
1. Residence of Hon. T. Y. Hoffman, 154 Washington Street. 2. Residence of F. J. Kistler, 202 Washington 
Street. 3. Residence of Louis Rupprecht, 130 Lackawanna Avenue. 4. Residence of L. D. Sopher, 204 Analomink 
Street. 5. Residence of the Late Mayor Frank Smiley, 202 North Courtland Street. 6. Residence of W. E. Van Vliet, 
152 North Courtland Street 



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HOME LIFE IS IDEALIZED IX STRUT I >SliCK<; 

1. Residence of .Mrs. W. B. Easton, 707 Thomas Street, (Taken from the spacious lawn). 2. Residence of Thomas 

.1. Kitson, 746 Main Street. 3. Residence of John S. Schoonover, Highland Park. 4. Residence of William A.Gilbert. 

905 Main Street. 5. Residence of Attorney W. B. Eilenberger. Highland I'ark. 6. Residence of Dr. W. C. Snover, 

403 North 5th Street. . 



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EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., HAS MANY ARTISTIC HOMES 
1. Residence of Lewis Glass, 12 Smith Street. 2. Resilience of Dr. J. Anson Singer, 116 Washington Street. 3. Resi- 
dence of Dr. C. B. Rosenkrans. Analomink, at Smith Street. 4. Residence of Frank Smiley, 39 Green Street. 5. Resi- 
dence of Harry B. Drake, 88 Analomink Street. 6. Residence of Mayor Robert H. Ace, 149 Ridgway Street 



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The Biologic Products of the Slee Laboratories 

At Swiftwater, Pa., Place Monroe County in an Enviable Position Among Medical Scientists of the World 



MONROE COUNTIANS will agree on one point with 
the appearance of this edition. To many it will 
bring the first opportunity of seeing their county as 
others see it. The Slee Laboratories, at Swiftwater, Pa., 
may be termed the leader in this section for keeping the 
attention of the scien- 
tific world centered 
on Monroe County. 

On this page is 
shown in one group a 
portion of the build- 
ings used in the prep- 
aration of the various 
biologic products mar- 
keted by the Slee 
Laboratories; notably 
Diphtheria and Tetan- 
us Antitoxins, Anti- 
streptococcus, Anti- 
meningitis and Nor- 
mal Serums, Small- 
pox Vaccine Virus, 
etc. 

These Laboratories 
were established by 
Dr. Richard Slee in 
1897. His son, Arthur 
M. Slee, is now active- 
ly engaged with him 
in the scientific man- 
agement of this large 
plant. 

Since their estab- 
lishment in 1897, these 
laboratories have con- 
tinuously supplied 
their products to the 
U. S. Army and other 
branches of the Government services, to many state and 
local boards of health, and their scientific standing has 
made them the Mecca of those interested in this most 
exacting branch of medical research work. 

The Slee Laboratories were the first to be built in the 




The Slee Laboratories Are Located on the Banks of This Picturesque Mountain Stream 



United States for the commercial production of these, at 
that time new remedies; all of the buildings are of stone, 
practically fireproof in construction, and with their every 
detail of scientific equipment and management, their 
beautiful and healthful surroundings, located on the banks 

of the renowned Swift- 
water stream, it is no 
wonder that their pro- 
ducts are used in prac- 
tically every country 
on this globe. 

Dr. Richard Slee, 
the head and founder 
of the Slee Laborator- 
ies holds a commis- 
sion in the U. S. 
Army, as First Lieu- 
tenant in the Medical 
Reserve Corps, is a 
Fellow of the Ameri- 
can Medical Associa- 
tion, Member of the 
Society of Military 
Surgeons, Society of 
American Bacteriolog- 
ists, and other organ- 
izations of equal 
standing. 

Location is not a 
matter of great weight 
in some cases, as long 
as railroad facilities 
have been taken into 
consideration. In es- 
tablishing the Slee 
Laboratories at Swift- 
water, Pa., Dr. Rich- 
ard Slee, however, 
gave first consideration to natural surroundings. The head 
and founder of the Swiftwater plant has met the require- 
ments imposed on research work by locating in a country 
beautiful and health-inspiring, giving to Monroe County in- 
ternational fame through products of the Slee Laboratories. 




Partial View of Buildings Devoted to Scientific Research Work By the Slee Laboratories, Swiftwater, Pa. 

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TT"H 



rlE SECURITY TRUST 

I OF STROUOSBURG, PA. 




r; HIK YOUNGEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTION (N MONROE CO. | 



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NCORPORATED on March 26, 1909, under the 
laws of Pennsylvania, the Security Trust Co. 
opened for business in its present location on 
August 2, 1909. The first day's deposits amounted 
to $7,299, truly a nominal sum with which to commence 
operations. But those who had been instrumental in 
bringing about the addition of this Company to the finan- 
cial interests of Monroe County had planned with no un- 
certain outlook for the future. Rather had they figured 
on solid, steady growth to give assurance of looked for 
prosperity. Five 
years have pass- 
ed and it is evi- 
dent that the de 
sired success has 
been attained. 

The business of 
the Security 
Trust Co. shows 
an annual i n- 
crease of about 
$100,000 in de- 
posits since the 
opening of this 
institution, the 
total on January 
5, 1915, when the 
last report of the 
condition of this 
Bank was made, 
being $537,083.42. 
The charter or 
this Company 
gives it unusual 
scope, enabling it 
to act as trustees 
for funds or exe- 
cutors of wills. 
etc., for individ- 
uals or corpora- 
tions, giving it 
every facility for 
a savings deposit 
department, whil i 
still providing for 
the usual com- 
mercial banking 
facilities. As the 

COmpanv also has The Home of the Youngest Financial Institution 

a safe deposit vault system, the business has grown not 
only in the matter cf monies handled, but also in the num- 
ber of people who patronize the Security Trust Company. 
The banking rocms are modern and conveniently situated 
at No. 713 Main Street, near Seventh Street, the building 
having been entirely arranged to meet the requirements 
of this bank at the time of incorporation. The slogan 
of the institution is "the Bank for Courtesy and Service." 
It is impossible to take exception to it. Everything that 
has been done by this company has had in view, at any 
and all times, service for its patrons and courtesy to all 



It is possible that on this principle the record of this bank- 
ing institution has been built. Without a change in the 
personnel of its officers since the first election was held, 
there has been made statement after statement of 
the resources and liabilities of the Security Trust Com- 
pany of Stroudsburg sufficiently interesting as an indica- 
tor of progress to justify the belief that its future holds 
greater things in store for this bank. 

Aside from the property, furniture and fixtures in the 
present location, this company holds title to the corner 

of Main, at Sev- 
enth Street, 
Stroud sburg, 
where at present 
a drug store is lo- 
cated. It is con- 
templated to use 
this corner as the 
home of the Se- 
curity Trust Com- 
pany of Strouds- 
burg, as soon as 
possible, but sure- 
ly within the next 
few years, when 
all leases shall 
expire. The di- 
rectorate includes 
P. R. Johnson, H. 

A. Croasdale, L. 

B. Palmer, S. E. 
Shull, J. B. Wil- 
liams, Howard 
Morgan, W. C. 
Hood, John Snif- 
fer, Geo. L. Nyce, 
N. C. Miller, M. 
D.; F. D. Shupp. 
J. A. Singer, M. 
D.; E. G. Dor- 
shimer, J. D. Ser- 
fas, D. S. Greg- 
ory. A. A. Wert- 
man, M. D.; D. 
W . Bowman, 
Charles P. Mer- 
wine, James M. 

Gilpin, J. C. Kit- 
in Monroe County Whose Record Speaks for Itself cnen j3 j, Kemrj 

Thos. J. Kitson, D. C. Trach, M. D. The officers are: 
P. R. Johnson, President; J. A. Singer, Vice President; 
J. D. Serfas, Vice President and FranTi B. Michaels, Sec- 
retary and Treasurer. 

While the president of the bank, P. R. Johnson, gives 
much of his time to its interests, the active management of 
the affairs of this financial institution devolves upon F. B. 
Michaels, the secretary and treasurer, who is ever ready 
to serve the increasing number of clients. The remarka- 
ble progress of the Security Trust Co. must, in a measure, 
be ascribed to the active interest taken by the directors. 




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•X* "•^«— "i 1 ^" ■« ' " " " " " " " 




THE BENCH AND BAR 

AND OFFICIAL LIFE OF MONROE COUNTY 

AN ILLUSTRATED REVIEW BY EMIL HELD 




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THE FIRST MONROE COUNTY COURT HOUSE. Erected in 
In Its Place the County Now Has a Beautiful Lawn. 
Circle Fronting the Present Court House. 



HISTORY tells us that Nicholas Depuy was the first 
white settler in the limits of what is now known 
as Monroe County. Born in France, where in 
early life he was a Roman Catholic priest, he is 
said to have left his native country on account of persecu- 
tion following his affiliation 
with the Protestant sect of the 
Huguenots. He went to Hol- 
land, where he married a Miss 
Rose, but later came to this 
country from Artois, France, 
arriving in New York in Octo- 
ber, 1662, with his wife and 
three children. After an ex- 
tended residence in Ulster 
County, N. Y., he purchased 
land in the Minisink Valley 
some time between 1725-1727. 
His purchase in this valley, 
which extended from the Dela- 
ware Water Gap to Port Jervis, 
N. Y., embraced three thousand 
acres on the river, about three 
miles above the Gap, including 
the islands in the river and 
the Shawnee region. Accord- 
ing to Mr. J. Lantz, "this is said 
to be the oldest documentary authenticated settlement by 
the whites on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, 
of land now included in Monroe County." The late Robert 
R. Depuy was born in the ancestral mansion at Shawnee 
on November 13, 1814, and was a direct descendant of the 
original settler, Nicholas Depuy. 

Monroe County was 
established by an act 
of the Assembly en- 
titled "An act erect- 
ing part of Northamp- 
ton and Pike Counties 
into a separate coun- 
ty to be called Mon- 
roe," the act being ap- 
proved by Governor 
Joseph Ritner, April 
1, 1936. This process 
was much simpler 
than the selection of 
the county seat, which 
was left for the de- 
termination of the vot- 
ers. Stroudsburg, 
Delaware Water Gap, 
and Ke.llersville con- 
tested for the honor, 
an election being held 
on July 2, 1836, which 
resulted in a draw. 
On the 26th of the 
same month, a second 




1836. 




election was held, when Stroudsburg was supported by the 
Gap and received 1132 votes against 1062 for Kellersville. 
Fraud was charged freely, but in after years, merely elicited 
a smile on the faces of those who seemed to think that 
Stroudsburg simply succeeded in getting the larger number 

of all votes cast for either 
town, whether honest or il- 
legal. 

Briefly, but clearly the read- 
er has thus been brought up 
to the establishment of Mon- 
roe County, whereby all com- 
munities, affected by it, and 
included therein, received a 
new impetus to their growth. 
The first court in this county- 
was held in the upper rooms of 
the since razed Edward H. 
Walton house, opposite the 
Hotel Fulmer, which was for- 
merly known as the Burnett 
House. 

The court house, which was 
then being erected on ground 
deeded by Stroud J. Hollings- 
head, was guaranteed to the 
trustees appointed by an act of 
the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed on the first day of 
April preceding and to the county commissioners succeed- 
ing for the county of Monroe through the public spirit of 
Daniel Stroud, Stogdell Stokes, Joseph Wilson, John Boys, 
Morris D. Robeson and Michael H. Dreher, of the borough 
of Stroudsburg. The trustees, who were thus enabled to 

carry out the provis- 
ions of the Legisla- 
ture, were: Moses W. 
Coolbaugh. Benjamin 
V. Bush, William Van 
Buskirk. Michael Shoe- 
maker and Joseph 
Trach. 

In this historic year 
the county of Monroe 
was annexed to and 
became a part of the 
Eleventh Judicial Dis- 
trict of the Common- 
wealth, and courts 
were ordered held on 
the third Mondays of 
February, May, Sep- 
tember and December 
in each year, the first 
court actually being 
...livened on the nine- 
teenth day of Decem- 
ber, in pursuance of 
the Act of the Legis- 
lature. Hon o r a b 1 e 



THE PRF.SENT MONROE COUNTY COURT HOUSE 
Lawn Circle Frontinc It is Site of First Court House 



105 



David Scott as president judge, John T. Bell and Jacob 
Brown being associate judges of this court by appoint- 
ment. To John W. Burnett, appointed crier, fell the duty 
of opening the first courts. 

Aside from the reading of the commissions of the asso- 
ciate judges, commissions were read at this session of the 
following officers: Joseph S. Teel as sheriff of said coun- 
ty, with writ of assistance; Gideon Burrett, as prothono- 
tary of the Court of Common Pleas, clerk of the Court of 
Oyer and Terminer, and clerk of Court of Quarter Ses- 
sions; Samuel Snyder as register and recorder and clork 
of the Orphans' Court. 

The list of attorneys, admitted at this session to prac- 
tice before the several courts of the county, shows the 
following: James M. Porter, Peter Ihrie, Hopewell Hep- 
burn, Andrew H. Reeder, Horace E. Wolf, Richard Brod- 
head, Jr., Newton D. Strong, William Davis, Peter Wyckoff, 
M. M. Dimmick, and Alexander E. Brown, some of these 
names later gaining lustre, not only in law, but also in 
political life. In after years the names of Hon. Samuel 
S. Dreher, Hon. James H. Walton, Hon. Charlton Burnett, 
Stephen Holmes, Hon. John B. Storm, Lewis M. Burson. 
Thomas McFall Mcllhaney, David S. Lee, Archibald A. 
Dinsmore, Henry 
J. Kotz, John E. 
Shull and others 
will be found in 
the historic pages 
of active law prac- 
titioners. 

The office of 
President Judge 
in 1836 records 
also the names 
of Wm. Jessup, 
Luther Kidder, N. 

B. Eldred, Geo. R. 
Barrett, and last- 
ly, Hon. Jas. M. 
Porter. The lat- 
ter was succeed- 
ed by Hon. Thos. 
A. Bell, in 1855, 
while Hon. Sam'l 
S. Dreher as- 
sumed the office 
in 1870. 

The first coun- 
ty treasurer on record in 1836 was Joseph Trach, who 
held office until 1839. With his own name and term are 
linked those of Jacob Shoemaker, Henry Fenner and John 

C. Bush, as the first County Commissioners. 

Professional Life in All Branches a Factor 
To a section, favored by nature as is Monroe County 
and all her tributary country, in early days the health- 
seeker began to flock for recuperation. Thus we find in 
the early history of this section names of medical and 
dental practitioners who have been instrumental in the 
upbuilding thereof. Some of the names have had even 
more than a local reputation. Included in the list of men 
who upheld the ethics of their profession at home and 
abroad are: Dr. Henry Richard Linderman and Dr. Gar- 
rett Brodhead Linderman, sons of Dr. John J. Linderman. 
a German, who settled in Pike county, and later married 
a daughter of Hon. Richard Brodhead; Dr. Francis Joseph 
Smith, whose original name was Josephus Jacobus Aerts, 
a native of Brussels, then capital city of the Netherlands. 
who changed the name to escape "from the despotism of 
the Queen of France"; Dr. Abraham Reeves Jackson, who 
was largely responsible for the organization of the Mon- 




State Bridge Across Brodhead's Creek, Connecting 



roe County Agricultural Society and who also became the 
"Doctor" of Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad." Later 
Dr. Jackson attained fame as practitioner and editor of 
medical journals in Chicago. 

His brother, Dr. George W. Jackson, practiced in 
Stroudsburg until his death in 1877. Dr. Philip M. Bush, 
of Marshall's Creek; his sons, Dr. Horace Bush, who now 
conducts the Crystal Pharmacy, East Stroudsburg, and 
Dr. Lewis Bush, who practiced in East Stroudsburg; Dr. 
Irvin R. Bush; Dr. Cicero Brodhead; Dr. M. G. Lesh; Dr. 
James Hollinshead, who lived and died near Stroudsburg 
before the erection of Monroe county; Dr. Frank Hollins- 
head, his grandson; Dr. N. C. E. Guth, for years at Gil- 
bert; Dr. J. F. Lesh, of East Stroudsburg, who later be- 
came a professor in a Kansas institution; all of these 
names remain honored in the professional history of 
Monroe county. Dr. Amzi LeBar began the practice of 
medicine at Elmer, N. J., in 1867, but removed to East 
Stroudsburg in 1871, establishing himself at the county 
seat, Stroudsburg, in 1874, where he purchased the old 
Hollinshead drug store, in July, 1880. Dr. S. S. Levering, 
who located in Pleasant Valley (now Gilbert) in 1863 and 
eight years later removed to Brodheadsville; Dr. George 

W. Seip; Dr. S. 
Stokes, who in 
1820 began the 
practice of medi. 
cine in Strouds- 
burg, but soon be- 
came, favor ably 
known as an 
apothecary; Dr. 
E. Grewer, who 
settled near Bush- 
kill; Dr. Thos. 
Grattan, a native 
of Ireland, who 
was skilled in sur- 
gery and soon af 
ter his marriage 
in 1816 emigrated 
to what is now 
Monroe county, 
finally making his 
home at Mar- 
shall's Falls; Dr. 
Matthew George 

Link Between Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg p ra ff an whose 

parents settled in Smithfield and who practiced there; 
Dr. Samuel L. Foulke, who confined his attention to phar- 
macy; Dr. George W. Dunga'n, a homeopathist; Dr. N. C. 
Miller; Dr. Simon E. Miller; Dr. Charles Vail, who died 
in Stroudsburg about 1836; Dr. J. P. Mutchler; Dr William 
P. Vail, all these are among the honored names of the 
early and late history of the past century in Monroe 
county; Dr. N. C. Miller among them all being a highly 
honored pactitioner, still in the harness. 

Dr. Jackson Lantz established himself at Stroudsburg 
in 1852 in the practice of dentistry. He also became 
active in the business interests and, during his term of 
office as chief burgess, helped to restore the lower part 
of the town which was carried away by a freshet in 1869, 
the Town Council becoming personally responsible for 
liabilities to meet immediate requirements and repairs. 

But for the fact that Dr. Joseph H. Shull, of Strouds- 
burg, is — really in the prime of life like Dr. J. Anson Sin- 
ger, of East Stroudsburg, a still younger man, — writing 
good history right along, one would be tempted to include 
them also in the honored records which have been made 
by professional men hereabouts. To many it will be of 



106 




Photo Copyright. 1914, by Geo. C. Huehes. East Stroudsburg. Pa. 

Second Annual Reunion Octogenarian Association of Monroe County, at Stroudsburg, Pa., October 1, 1914 

A number of those attending left before the picture was taken. Those in the above group are: Reading from left to Right, Standing — D. S. 
Bisbing, Mason Tock. Levi Drake, .losiah Bartron. Dr. C. E. Van Allen. Joseph Keller, Andrew Hallett, Dr. R. J. Levering, Levi Smith, Silas Dreher, 
J. F. Brewer. Left to Right, Sitting — Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Biesecker. E. R. Gearhart. William S. Stiff. .1. U. Hilgert, H. R. Biesecker. President: 
Rev. B. F. Apple, Secretary: Dr. lackson Lantz, Aaron Reimer. Charles Hallett. S. At. Pettit, .1. S. Williams, Vice President: C. L. Hallett. J. M. 
Peters, Charles Koehler, Joseph Arnold, A. N. Snover 

This photograph was appropriately taken in Court House Square, on the spot where the first Court House stood. The County's age nearly ap- 
proaches the average age of these octogenarians 



interest to know that Stroudsburg's live wire was admitted 
to the practice of law in 1877, just four years after his grad- 
uation in medicine. Only a few years later, in 1883, Dr. J. 
Anson Singer began to practice medicine in Brodheadsville, 
having since located in East Stroudsburg. In these days, 
when everybody is or supposed to be doing it, one is safe 
to claim that these two men, active in their professional 
careers, are essentially doing things that make for the 
commercial and industrial growth of Pennsylvania's favor- 
ed region. 

Education Has Driven Its Wedge of Progress 

In the educational history of what is now Monroe Coun- 
ty, the records go back only to 1800. What there is of 
earlier data must be credited to the re- 
search of B. F. Morey, an honored citi- 
zen and educator. He places the earliest 
school of which anyone appears to have 
any recollection, on Keever's Hill, in 
Stroud township, on the public road 
leading from Stroudsburg to the Wind 
Gap, and outside of the present borougli 
limits. The citizens instrumental in 
building this log school structure were: 
Daniel Stroud, John Stroud, Mr Hollins- 
head, and a few others. The first teach- 
er was a Mr. Curtis. This school was 
organized some time before the year 
1800. It was moved about 1800 to a 
stone building in the borough of Strouds- 
burg. At about the same time a school 
was in successful operation in Hamilton 
township, at Hamilton Square, while in 
Middle Smithfield a school was organ- 
ized under the direction of the Cool- 
baughs and Overfields. in an old log 
dwelling house. Some of the pupils of 
that early date came to their schools a distance of five 
miles. 

In 1810 the first school house was built in Cb.estnutb.itl 
township, at Pleasant Valley Church, and about the same 
time, or soon after, one at Keller's Mills. Slowly other 
schools were organized and houses built in other town- 
ships. The next great effort in educational progress was 




Prof. Frank Koehler, 
Of Schools for 



the building of an academy for the county on Academy 
Hill. The state furnished $2,000 — citizens supplying the 
rest. Another academy was opened in 1855 in one of the 
finest buildings in the county by Rev. Mr. Howell, a Presby- 
terian minister of Delaware Water Gap. Unfortunately 
he sold the property in 1862, to join the army, and the 
new owner soon after changed the purpose of the original 
owner by converting it into a resort hotel. In 1874 an 
effort was made to build a normal school, but failed until 
in later years East Stroudsburg became the seat of the 
East Stroudsburg State Normal School. In another part 
of this edition will be found more detailed information 
about this institution's pronounced success. Of late years 
the educational growth of the entire 
county has kept pace with all other 
interests, public and private. 

It is doubtful if C. S Detrich, appoint- 
ed first county superintendent in 1853, 
by Mr. Curtin, then Secretary of State, 
(because Hon. Charlton Burnett had 
not been elected by a majority vote) 
could look back upon his nearly nine 
years' term of office with anything like 
the assurance, of progress made in the 
present day in one-tenth the time. But 
today Monroe Countians i an point with 
pride to education as to other factors 
and in truth say: "This is indeed Penn- 
sylvania's Favored Region." 

Among the Professional and Public 

Men of Today 
To speak of the past without men- 
tioning the present would be to produce 
Hamlet with "Hamlet left out." But it 
is not my purpose to detail the family 
history of those whose careers, as fac- 
tors in the present life of Monroe County, are of Interest 
in a reasonably complete resume of the civic and general 
professional advancement as depicted in the year 1914. 
These closely intimate data avail nothing in the pictorial 
and text portrayal in these columns of those who have 
already earned a place among the faithful and the boosters 
of and for Monroe County. R:ithor it is my intention to 



County Superintendent 
Monroe County 



107 



briefly sketch valuable data about individuals, as I have 
been able to gather them in casual conversation about 
the court house or in other public places; substantiated — 
however — by competent authority wherever there was 
occasion to verify the information obtained. 

The present county officials 
are: Hon. Charles B. Staples, 
President Judge of the Forty- 
Third Judicial District, com- 
posed of Monroe and Pike Coun- 
ties, elected in 1903 and re- 
elected in 1913; Hon. George H. 
M e t z g a r, Associate Judge 
elected in 1911; Hon. Moses C. 
Strunk, Associate Judge, elect- 
ed in 1911; Samuel B. Correll, 
Prothonotary and Clerk of 
Courts, elected in 1908 and re- 
elected in 1911; Eugene H. 
Altemose, Register of Wills and 
Recorder of Deeds, elected in 
1911; William J. Hamblin, Coun- 
ty Trasurer, elected in 1911; 
George Evans, County Commis- 



sioner, elected in 1911; Enos A. Miller, County Commission- 
er, elected in 1911; Wm. S. Harps, County Commissioner, 
elected in 1908 and re-elected in 1911; Peter Bonser, 
Sheriff, elected in 1911; John H. Wagner, Jury Commis- 
sioner, elected in 1913; Norman D. Treible, Jury Com- 
missioner, elected in 
19 13; Joseph A. 
Shupp, County Audi- 
tor, elected in 1911; 
George E. L a B a r, 
County Auditor, elect- 
ed in 1911; Charles 
MacDonough, County 
Auditor, elected in 
1908 and re-elected in 
1911; Ira A. LaBar, 
District Attorney, 
elected in 1911; Prof. 
Frank Koehler, Coun- 
ty Superintendent of 
Schools, first elected 
in 1905 and re-elected 
for the fourth time in 
1914; Robert E. 
Evans, Clerk to the 
County Commission- 



ter H. Rhodes; Stewart S. Shafer; W. A. Shafer; Harry 

K. McNeal, and C. R. Bensinger; all of Stroudsburg. 

A. R. Brittain, another member of the Bar, has his offices 

in East Stroudsburg.. 

The medical and dental professions are well represent- 
ed in both towns and through- 
out the county. Some of the 
representative members of these 
professions appear in this edi- 
tion. Others include among 
the practicing physicians: Dr. 
E. H. Levering; Dr. W. R. Lev- 
ering; Dr. C. M. Brownell, and 
others of Stroudsburg; Dr. G. S. 
Travis; Dr. O. S. Rhodes, and 
others of East Stroudsburg. 
Among the dentists are also: 
Dr. Wei com C. Snover; Dr. 
N. L. Peck; Dr. W. F. Hayes, 
and others of Stroudsburg; Dr. 
C. G. Cross, and others of East 
Stroudsburg. 

Of those in the medical pro- 
High School, Brodheadsviiie, Pa. pession, Dr. Richard Slee does 





not practice medicine, but devotes his time to the Slee 
Laboratories, at Swiftwater, Pa., whose products are 
recognized and acepted as high standard by the U. S. 
Government and leading practitioners of the world. 

Dr. Horace Bush is the owner of the Crystal Phar- 
macy, East Strouds- 
burg, to which he has 
devoted most of his 
time for years. He is 
highly respected by 
every man in active 
practice. Practition- 
ers in the country 
are all men of good 
standing. 

Hon. Charles B. 
Staples, President 
Judge of the 43d Judi- 
cial District, was born 
on November 24, 1853, 
graduated from Dick- 
inson College, Car- 
lisle, Pa., in June, 
1874, and was ad- 
mitted to the prac- 
tice of law on May 26, 



ers, appointed by the The Schools at East Stroudsburg Are Modern in Every Respect 1876. In May, 1885, 

commissioners on January 1, 1912. Rev. Charles E. Roth he was appointed by President Cleveland Collector of 

was appointed Court Stenographer in September 1913. Internal Revenue for the twelfth district of Pennsylvania, 

Cicero Gearhart is Counsel for holding this position from June 
the County Commissioners. The 



Associate Judges are chosen 
from the laity. 

The members of the Bar in- 
clude, besides those mentioned 
in connection with the county 
offices, the following: Hon. A. 
Mitchell Palmer, Member of 
Congress; Hon. Rodgers L. Bur- 
nett, U. S. District Attorney; 
Hon. Harvey Huffman, former 
State Senator; W. B. Eilenber- 
ger; Hon. W. A. Erdman; F. B. 
Holmes; Cicero Gearhart; J. B. 
Williams; S. E. Shull; Claude 
C. Shull; Dr. J. H. Shull; Ches- 




8, 1885, to July 10, 1889. Re- 
turning to his professional prac- 
tice, he continued successfully 
until his appointment, in Novem- 
ber, 1892, by Hon. Samuel 
Dreher, to the office of District 
Attorney for Monroe County. 
After his retirement from this 
office, on January 1, 1894, he 
again devoted his attention to 
his profession. On November 
3, 1903, Hon. Charles B. Staples 
was elected to the office of 
President Judge of the 43d 
Judicial District, composed of 
the counties of Monroe and 



Pocono Lake School House, Pocono Lake. Pa. 



108 



Pike. On November 4, 1913, he was re-elected to this 
office, defeating his opponent, Hon. Rodgers L. Burnett, 
overwhelmingly. Judge Staples is naturally — as well as 

by intent of his position — one of the 

leading citizens of this section. He 

makes his home in Stroudsburg. 
Hon. Moses C. Strunk, a prominent 

farmer and lumberman of Smithfield 

township, was born in 1842. In the 

district schools of Middle Smithfield 

township he received a common school 

education, and in his youth he taught 

several terms of school near his home. 

In 1890 he purchased the property in 

Middle Smithfield which had been 

owned and cleared by his father, John 

C. Strunk, and here he erected a fine 

home for the Bushkill Rod and Gun 

Club, of which he became general man- 
ager. He was elected to the office of 

Associate Judge on November 4, 1913. 

Judge Strunk previously held local 

offices in his township. 

Hon. Geo. H. Metzgar was born in 

Hamilton township. When he was 

four years of age, his father — Abraham 




in November, 1910. He is affiliated with many enterprises. 
YV. B. Eilenberger was born in Middle Smithfield town- 
ship, County of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania, in 
1867; attended school at the Kutztown 
State Normal School, Kutztown, Penn- 
sylvania; graduated from the National 
Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, 
with the degree of B. S.; taught school 
for a number of years, first in East 
Stroudsburg, later in Stroudsburg; 
studied law in the office of the Hon. 
John B. Storm of Stroudsburg, Penn- 
sylvania, and at the University of 
Pennsylvania. He was admitted to 
the Bar in September, 1894; was 
Deputy County Treasurer from 1894 to 
1897; was Chairman of the Democratic 
Committee for the years of 1901 and 
1902. He became a member of the law 
firm of Eilenberger & Huffman in 1897. 
This partnership has continued from 
that time down to the present. 

Cicero Gearhart was born at the 
family homestead on McMichaels 
Creek on April 18, 1858. After leav- 
ing the public schools, he attended a 



S. E. Shull, Attorney-at-Law, President 

Stroudsburg Industrial Club 

Metzgar — moved to Stroud township. Here the son at- seminary at Orangeville, Pa., also a Normal School in 

At the age of twenty he rented Berks County, and then he taught school for four winters 



tended the public schools, 
the farm, now owned by him. 
from his father. About twenty- 
five years ago he started lum- 
bering. Ten years later he en- 
tered into a partnership with 
his son, Charles, under the firm 
name of Geo. H. Metzgar & 
Son. They have carried on an 
extensive lumber business ever 
since. Judge Metzgar has held 
many township offices. In 1904 
he was elected Associate Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas 
of Monroe County for a term of 
five years which expired Janu- 
ary 1, 1910. By an act of the 
legislature he was appointed by 
the Governor for an extra term 
of one year. In 1911 he was re- 
elected for a term of six years, 
the farm in Stroud township, near Bartonsville, but is 
also completing an attractive home 
for his own occupancy in Highland 
I'ark, Stroudsburg. 

Hon. Harvey Huffman was born at 
Marshall's Creek, Monroe County, 
Pa., on May 19, 1869, and was educat- 
ed in the public schools and the Key- 
stone State Normal School, graduat- 
ing from the latter in 1892. He 
studied law at the University of 
Pennsylvania and in the office of the 
late Hon. John B. Storm, of Strouds- 
burg, Pa., was admitted to the Bar 
in 1896, and has since been actively 
engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. He is a member of the law 
firm of Eilenberger & Huffman, has 
been a staunch Democrat, delegate to 
political conventions, and Chairman of 
the County Committee. He has also 
served as County Solicitor. He was 
elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania 



in the latter section. For one 
year he attended school at Leb- 
anon, Ohio. He prepared for 
college at Brodheadsville, Pa., 
and for two years he was a 
student in Franklin & Marshall 
College, at Lancaster, Pa., later 
preparing for the practice of the 
legal profession with A. A. Dins- 
more, then of Stroudsburg. He 
was admitted to the Bar in 1885. 
Since then he has been in gen- 
eral practice at Stroudsburg. 
He was County Solicitor during 
the building of the court house 
and is filling the same office at 
this time. He served two terms 
as District Attorney of Monroe 
Barrett High School, Canadensis, Pa. County, being elected the first 

Judge Metzgar still owns time in 1899. He has at various times acted as counsel 




for the sheriff, 




Hayor Robert H. Ace, East Stroudsburg 

109 



county treasurer, prothonotary, register 
and recorder. He is an ex-school 
director, counsel for the borough board 
of health and for a number of town- 
ships of the county. His public and 
private acts have never been question- 
ed, and his standing is the highest. On 
January 1, 1914, Chester H. Rhodes be- 
came associated with Mr. Gearhart, 
under the firm name of Gearhart & 
Rhodes. 

Chester H. Rhodes was born on Oc- 
tober 19, 1887, at Gouldsboro, Wayne 
County, Pa. He prepared for college 
at the School of Lackawanna, Scran- 
ton, Pa., attended Muhlenberg College, 
Allentown, Pa., one year, graduated 
from Lehigh University, South Bethle- 
hem, Pa., with degree of B. A., in 1910, 
and received the degree of M. A. from 
the same institution in 1912. He was 
admitted to the Bar in Monroe County. 
Pa., on October 4, 1913, becoming the 



junior member of the firm of Gearhart & Rhodes, on Jan- 
uary 1, 1914. Mr. Rhodes is the youngest member of the 
Bar in Monroe County. 

Samuel Eakin Shull was born in Stroudsburg, Pa., on 
May 16, 1878. He graduated from the South Easton 
High School in 1895, from the University of North Caro- 
lina in 1900, and was admitted to the Bar of Monroe 
County on September 24, 1900. As a law student he 
registered from the office of his father, J. H. Shull. Be- 
ginning practice at Stroudsburg immediately after admis- 
sion, S. E. Shull entered into a partnership with his fath- 
er in 1902 — under the firm name of Shull & Shull — which 
has continued to date. Mr. Shull, in addition to his law 
work, is vice president and treasurer of the Stroudsburg 




Chemical and Hose Truck Purchased by Chemical Co. No. 

Ribbons Mills, director and solicitor of the 
Trust Company, and president of the King Realty Com- 
pany. He is District Deputy Grand Master— 50th Masonic 
District of Pennsylvania; has achieved distinction as cap- 
tain of the Football Team of the University of North 
Carolina, and is recognized as an energetic citizen. The 
members of the Stroudsburg Industrial Club honored his 
spirit of progress by electing S. E. Shull to the office of 
President— on February 12, 1915— as successor to Robert 
Brown, who had held the position since the organization 
ni' the club. 



to the Race Academy at Hollisterville, Wayne County, Pa., 
also to a private school taught by Prof. John F. Dooley, 
and to the State Normal School at Trenton, New Jersey. 
Mr. Williams registered as a law student with A. A. Dins- 
more, then of Stroudsburg, and was admitted to the Bar 
in December, 1885. After leaving home — at the age of 
twenty-one — he taught school for several years, but in 
1880 entered the employ of William Burrows and Milton 
Yetter, owners of the East Stroudsburg Glass Company, 
at their Binghamton, N. Y., plant. Mr. Williams was 
Commissioners' Clerk of Monroe County from January 
1890 to January 1893, District Attorney of Monroe County 
for two terms, to wit: from January 1893 to January 1899. 
He has been Solicitor of the borough of Stroudsburg and 

Secretary of the 
Council of the bor- 
ough of Stroudsburg 
for over twenty 
years, during which 
time, through the 
efforts of the Town 
Council, the affairs 
of the borough were 
so conducted that, 
with one exception, 
the borough was not 
called upon to de- 
fend any law suits, 
that exception being 
a law suit some- 
what mutual in its 
character to deter- 



Hon. W. A. Erdman, native 
of Monroe County, studied 
law with the late Hon. 
John B. Storm, at Strouds- 
burg, was admitted to the 
practice of law on March 1. 
1888. Judge Erdman was 
lor some time associated 
with other members of the 
Bar; with Hon. Charles B. 
Staples under the firm 
name of Staples & Erdman, 
and with Cicero Gearhart 
under the firm name of 
Gearhart & Erdman. He 
was appointed on January 
1, 1903, to fill out the un- 
expired term of the late 
Hon. Allen Craig, as Presi- 
dent Judge of the Forty- 
Third Judicial District, 
composed of the counties of 
Monroe and Pike. Since Judge Erdman retired from the 
bench, he has built up a lucrative private practice. He is 
looked upon as a man of sterling character. 

John B. Williams was born June 21, 1854, at South 
Sterling, Wayne County, Pa., on the Williams' Homestead 
Farm, received common school education at home, went 



i, Stroudsburg, Pa., from James Boyd & Brother, Phila. 

Security mine whether a certain street in Slroudsburg was a pub- 
lic highway. 

Franklin Koehler, better known as Frank Koehler, was 
born at Rossland, Monroe County, Pa., December 26, 1871. 
He attended the Meixell's Valley public school; entered 
Polytechnic Institute in the Spring of the year 1887, grad- 
uating therefrom in the year 1890. He taught public school 
in Polk Township for several winter terms, and served as 
an assistant teacher at Polytechnic Institute during the 
Spring and Summer terms. He was elected Principal of 
the Hudsondale schools in Carbon County, and served for 
three successive terms. At the close of this period he was 
elected Principal of Polytechnic Institute, at Gilbert, which 

position he held for thirteen 




years. In the year 1898 he 
was granted a Teachers' 
State Certificate by the Key- 
stone State Normal School. 
His special work, under pri- 
vate tutorship, enabled him 
to receive the degree Mas- 
ter of Arts from Ursinus 
College in 1902. He was 
elected Superintendent of 
Public Schools of Monroe 
County in the year, 1905, 
having since been elected 
to serve a fourth term. In 
1910, he founded and be- 
came editor of "The Home 
and School Guest," a live 
up-to-date school paper. He 
has served as Superintend- 
ent of different Sunday 
Schools for twenty-four 
years, and at present is 
County Superintendent of 
the Teacher Training Depart- 
ment in Monroe County, 
which in efficiency has led the State for the last five 
years. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Con- 
vention at Denver, in 1908. He is a member of the Nation- 
al Educational Association since 1906, and took a course in 
Special Supervision at Columbia University. Mr. Koeh- 
ler's work in the county has been effective. His effort to 
secure closer supervision of schools by organizing the coun- 
ty through a Co-operative Committee has attracted attention. 



Effort Public School, Effort, Pa. 



110 




Reading from left to right, top row. Hon. Harvey Huffman, of Eilenberger & Huffman: \V. B. Eilenberger. of 
Eilenberger <fc Huffman; Hun. \V. A. Erdman. Center row: Hon. Geo. H. Mctzgar. Associate Judge of Monroe 
County: Hon. elms. I!. Staples. President Judge of the 43rd Judicial District, composed of Monroe and Pike coun- 
ties: Hon. Moses C. Strunk, Associate Judge of Monroe County. Bottom row: John B. Williams. Solicitor for 
Strondsburg; Cicero Gearhart, County Solicitor, of Gearhart & Rhodes; Chester H. Rhodes, of Gearhart & Rhodes. 



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PROFESSIONAL MEN IN MONROE COUNTY, PA., COMMAND/THE RESPECT OF ALL CITIZENS 

Reading from left to right, beginning at top: Dr. C. B. Rosenkrans, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Dr. J. Anson Sin- 
ger, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; Dr. A. A. Wertman, Tannersville, Pa.; Dr. L. J. Morgan, Dentist, East Stroudsburg, Pa.; 
Dr. Richard Slee, Founder and Head of the Slee Laboratories, Swiftwater, Pa.; Dr. S. W. L'Amoreaux, Stroudsburg, 
Pa.; Dr. L. E. Ace, Dentist, Stroudsburg, Pa.; Dr. Horace B. Bush, Proprietor Crystal Pharmacy, East Stroudsburg, 
Pa.; Dr. F. W. Ritter, Tannersville, Pa. 



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Cataract House 

Casino and Cottages 



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AT DELAWARE WATER GAP, PA., 

FORM AN IRRESISTIBLE COMB1- 

NATION OF ATTRACTIONS FOR 

A SELECT PATRONAGE 




A' CCOMMODATING two hundred guests, the Cata- 
ract House, Casino and Cottages are attractively 
located out of the village, with the advantages of 
the lake, river and country in adjacent proximity, 
affording an enviable playground for a vacation. 
On a spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains, overlooking lake, 
river and village, and only two miles from the Lacka- 
wanna depot, this spot is accessible to all points of inter- 
est, the walk to the village being in itself one of the pas- 
times of the season guests here. The buildings are fire- 
resisting, large and modern, the entire premises having 
been improved; the lawns are well shaded. Sanitar; 
arrangements meet the requirements of the fastidious 



The Ball Room at the Cataract House 



enjoy their outings to the utmost with our coach service. 
Catholic and Protestant churches are near: express sta- 
tion, postoffice, and telegraph office are within ten min- 
utes walk of the house. Laundry service for the con- 
venience of guests. Guests are met at Water Gap station. 
The Cataract House occupies a commanding position 
on the side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, far above sea 
level. The surroundings are ideal and beautiful in the 
extreme — a happy combination of the skill of the land- 
scape artist and the untouched, rugged beauty of nature. 
From the broad piazzas — running around the house — are 
views of surpassing grandeur. The Delaware River is 
near — and the beautiful Silver Lake Falls, to many better 




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Cataract House, Overlooking Beautiful Silver Lake Falls 



guest. There are open fire-places; pool and billiard 
tables; bowling alleys and tennis courts; cement and 
dirt courts; bathing facilities, for which guests bring 
their suits; boating and canoeing, with weekly regattas; 
fishing and hunting in season. Cuisine and drinking water 
unsurpassed. Spacious dining rooms and comfortable 
parlors. 

A splendid ball ground with grand stand brings fre- 
quent ball games by college teams. The ball room, forty 
six feet square, has a fine maple floor. Livery, saddle 
and driving horses reasonable. Coaching parties can 



known as the "Cataract Falls." empty into Silver Lake 
nearby. Noted for its healthfulness — its dry, invigorating 
air — as well as its scenic attractiveness, this district has 
been favored for more than fifty years as a resort, the 
Cataract House alone having been practically under one 
management for over thirty seasons. The Cataract House 
enjoys the distinction of providing a real home for its 
guests — givng every advantage of the highest type of 
modern home life, coupled with the systematic conduct of 
a distinctive hotel. All inquiries should be addressed to 
Garrett R. Tucker, manager, Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 



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PUBLIC SERVICE IS EFFICIENTLY 
DERED IN THE STROUDSBURGS 



BY THE CITIZENS GAS AND ELECTRIC CO., THE STROUDSBURG WATER SUPPLY 
CO., AND THE STROUDSBURG, WATER GAP AND PORTLAND RAILWAY CO. 



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ERHAPS nothing better illustrates the growth of 
the Stroudsburgs than the character of the public 
service companies operated therein. One group, 
comprising the Stroudsburg Water Supply Com- 
pany, the Citizens Gas and Electric Company, and the 
Stroudsburg, Water Gap and Portland Railway Company, 
all under one management, 
represents an investment of 
nearly three-quarters of a 
million dollars. Perhaps the 
most vital need of any com- 
munity is a sufficient and 
wholesome supply of water 
for domestic purposes. 
Stroudsburg is especially 
fortunate in this, as the prin- 
cipal water supply for the 
town is furnished by the 
water company from a great 
spring at Stokes' mill which 
flows a million gallons daily 
in times of great drought. 
To provide for the future, 
the water company has ac- 
quired two farms in Stroud 
township and will build a 
storage reservoir with a ca- 
pacity of 20,000,000 gallons. 
The pipe line is already laid 
to the proposed reservoir 
site, and work on the reser- 
voir will be started this summer under favorable conditions. 
Perhaps next in importance to a sufficient water supply 
are the gas and electric facilities, and in this the Citizens' 



tract for the lighting of a single isolated dwelling, or for 
the furnishing of a hundred or more horse power. The fur- 
nishing of power for the local industries has become a 
great factor in the electric business, and some of the 
local industries operated from the "Citizens" plant are 
the Stroudsburg Engine Works, Monroe Ribbon Mills, 





A Modern All-Gas Kitchen 

Gas and Electric Co. points to complete, but ever increas- 
ing facilities. The electric department is prepared to con- 



Spring: at Stokes' Mill, Flowing a Million Gallons Daily 

Lippman and Abrash Silk Mills, East Stroudsburg Lumber 
Company, Record Printing Plant, Times-Democrat Printing 
House and numerous feed mills and small users of power. 
The facilities for the supply of electric current demand con- 
stant increase, and the Citizens Gas and Electric Company 
is enlarging its facilities to 2,000 horse power, so that in- 
ducements may be offered to any sized factory to locate 
in either town. With cheap power and good water, cou- 
pled with freedom from labor troubles, certainly the two 
Stroudsburgs offer an inviting field for new industrial 
operations. 

Five years of increasing effort has educated the people 
of the community in the use of gas for many purposes. A 
keen observer has said that he could estimate a town by 
the size of its gas tanks. On the dividing line between 
the two towns — at the State Bridge — the Citizens Gas 
and Electric Company owns ten acres, with a frontage on 
Main Street, which is constantly being built up into an 
efficient public utility service station. In fact, this 
property is being built up so constantly that it is hardly 
ever clear of supplies, used almost continuously for build- 
ing operations of one kind or another. Just now the gas 
generating apparatus is being duplicated, and a new gas 
main is being laid along Main Street, so that the capacity 
of both the works and the distributing system are being 
doubled to provide for future growth. The secret of the 
increased use of gas for all purposes lies in its economy, 
except for power, but principally in its use as fuel by dis- 



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placing the old-fashioned coal ranges in the kitchen. All 
good houses, now being built, have all-gas kitchens, and 
in many of the older ones gas ranges are being installed 
to do away with coal and to provide long-sought-for cleanli- 
ness and convenient service at little cost. It is a well- 
established fact that gas is cheaper than coal, and it en- 
tirely eliminates the carrying of coal and ashes. A modern 
all-gas kitchen is cheaper to install and cheaper to operate, 
hence the ever increasing popularity of the gas range. 

It may safely be asserted here that no community in 
Pennsylvania of equal size has better water, gas and elec- 
tric facilities than the Stroudsburgs. Rates are low and 
the service superior. This aggregation of public service 
facilities furnishes support for about fifty employees and 
is in consequence one of the industrial factors in the town. 
The several companies have a good reputation for the 



plex variations of scenery. There are those who have 
said that Delaware Water Gap is placed among the few 
real wonders of the world. One only needs to add that 
"truth is mighty." For truth is sufficient in all that may 
be said of the Gap. On page four of this edition of "The 
Bells" will be found a panoramic view of Delaware Water 
Gap, as seen from the roadbed of the "Scenic Route." On 
this page will be found some general views of the Gap, 
both being indicative of what is in store for the sightsee- 
ing tourist. 

With the above introduction the management of the 
Strcudsburg, Water Gap & Portland Railway Co., could 
stop its essay on the "Scenic Route" of Monroe County, 
Pa., but a few facts will prove interesting. The road was 
first built over the mountain between Stroudsburg and 
Water Gap in 1907, and in 1912 extended through from 




Beauty Spots at Delaware Water (lap, Pa., Reached by the "Scenic Route" of the Stroudsburg, Water Gap & Portland Railway Cl 



treatment of the public and every complaint is considered 
and adjusted with promptness and fairness. 

The president of the Water Company is B. S. Jacoby. 
H. E. Sweeney is vice president of the Gas and Electric 
Company and the Stroudsburg, Water Gap and Portland 
Railway Company. All the companies are under the man- 
agement of A. A. Holbrook. 

THE FAMOUS MOUNTAIN VIEW LINE 
Scenic railways will be found in many states of the 
Union. But it remained for Monroe Countians, in "Penn- 
sylvania's Favored Region," to locate a scenic route — un- 
paralleled for natural beauty — and thus bring to summer 
guests visiting this region the ideal means of seeing the 
famous Gap section of Monroe. A painting might bring 
in its varying colors visions of the reality, as it is found 
on this trip. But it would require the artist's skill for 
years to reproduce thus in detail the manifold and corn- 



Water Gap to Portland. The length of the route is ten 
miles and the actual cost more than a quarter of a million 
dollars, proving one of the most expensive trolley con- 
struction jobs ever undertaken in the state. During the 
summer boarding season, the "Scenic Route" is patron- 
ized by thousands of guests and travelers. 

This line is the connecting link between Stroudsburg 
and the trolley system of the slate region and affords a 
direct line between Phiadelphia and Stroudsburg. In 
summer the trip from Philadelphia to Water Gap is made 
in five hours; and the regular time at all seasons on local 
cars is only six hours from Philadelphia to Stroudsburg. 

World-wide travelers say that there is no trolley ride 
in their travels that compares with this for scenic grand- 
eur. The officers of the Stroudsburg, Water Gap & Port- 
land Railway Company are: John B. Reynolds, President: 
H. E. Sweeney, Vice President; A. A. Holbrook, Secretary, 
and C. D. Honeywell, Superintendent. 



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The Delaware House, at Delaware Water Gap 



REFLECTS CREDIT UPON JOHiN YARR1CK, OWNER 




Delaware House, Delaware Water Gap, Pa., a Popular Resort Near All Points of Interest 
The House is an Attractive Establishment for Autoists 



ACCOMMODATING 5 
^guests, the Delaware 
House is ideally situated for 
transient and permanent 
guests. Located opposite the 
Lackawanna station, it is 
within easy reach of the chief 
points of interest at Dela- 
ware Water Gap, and with 
relation to other hotels and 
the entire resort section here- 
abouts remains central. The 
house is open all the year, 
modern in every respect and 
completely equipped in every 
particular, being provided with 
every convenience. The rates 
are $2 and upward per day 
and $10 and upward per week. 
Parlors, writing, smoking 
and card rooms; billiards, 
pool, shuffle boards and bowl- 
ing alleys; long distance 
telephone and telegraph ser- 
vice; steam heat, gas, elec- 
tric lights, hot and cold baths 
on every floor; electric call 
bells and sanitary arrange- 
ments complete; unsurpassed 
cuisine; laundry service in 
the house; splendid roads for 
walking, driving and automo- 
biling; boating, bathing, fish- 
ing and gunning; a fireproof 
garage, etc. For full infor- 
mation, inquiries should be 
addressed to John Yarrick, 
Delaware Water Gap, Penna. 



The Oaks, at 

PROVES UP WITH HIGH IDEALS AND SPLENDID 
GERMAN-AMERICAN TABLE 

/""HARLES BARGET, proprietor of The Oaks, at Delaware 
^ Water Gap, is a host of extraordinary ability and ex- 
cellent judgment. His house is located on "Water Gap 
Heights," one of the highest locations, affording a beautiful 
view and restful surroundings. It is a summer residence 
for refined patrons, accommodating 35 guests comfortably, 
and near all points of interest. Rates range from $2.00 per 
day, and $10.00 per week and upwards. Ideals of comfort, 
quietude and real homelike surroundings are attained here 
by the most critical. The Oaks is easily reached from the 



:er Gap 



OVERLOOKING BEAUTIFUL SILVER LAKE 
IS HOMELIKE 

A CCOMMODATING twenty guests, the Buttermilk Falls 
■"■ House, at North Water Gap, is a country home for sum- 
mer guests at moderate rates. The house is surrounded by 
spacious grounds, well shaded, and located on elevated 
land, yet easily accessible from the highway which lies in 
front of it. Part of Silver Lake is owned by Mrs. Augusta 
LaBar, proprietor of Buttermilk Falls House. Fishing, 
boating and bathing can be enjoyed here. Boats are free 
for the use of guests. The air is dry and bracing. The 
table is supplied with fruit, vegetables, milk, butter, eggs, 





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The Oaks, on "Water Gap Heights," Delaware Water Gap, Pa. 

railroad station or the heart of the village by those who 
like a short walk at odd times. For reservations address 
Charles Barget, Proprietor, Delaware Water Gap, Penna. 

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Buttermilk Falls House, Mrs. Augusta La Bar, Proprietor 

etc., from the home farm. Carriage will meet guests at 
Delaware Water Gap station upon request. The house is 
open from May 1st to November 1st. Ice cream parlor is 
near the house, where refreshments are served. Butter- 
milk Falls, close by, is another attraction. For rates, full 
particulars and reservations, address Mrs. Augusta LaBar, 
North Water Gap, Pa., a short distance from Water Gap. 



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McMichaels 
Hotel 

MCMICHAELS, 
MONROE COUNTY, PA. 

THE SPORTSMEN'S PARADISE 
AND COOL RETREAT FOR ALL 



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ESTABLISHED probably in 1843 by Jerome Kresge, 
father of the present proprietor, J. W. Kresge, as a 



public house, McMichaels Hotel has been a licensed 
hotel ever since. Mr. Kresge was the pioneer settler of 
Chestnuthill township — in which McMichaels is located. 
He cleared the land and 
built the roads which now 
constitute this part of Mon- 
roe County. The house is 
located in the foothills of the 
Pocono Mountains, at the 
junction of public roads lead- 
ing from the Stroudsburgs 
and from WilkesBarre 
through Brodheadsville, in 
Monroe. 

It is ideally situated on the 
banks of McMichaels Creek, 
famous for its never ending 
supply of pure, cold water 
which rushes from the earth 
only a few miles away. Sur- 
rounded by stately maple 
shade trees, the hotel is al- 
ways cool at sundown during 



The Club Room at McMichaels Hotel— Headquarters of the Pohoqualine Fish Association 

months. Trout fishing and pheasant hunting is excellent 
in the vicinity of the hotel. During the open season the 
hotel is patronized by many sportsmen. Facilities for 
target shooting are of the best and accessible at all 
times. Telephone service on the Stroudsburg & Bushkill 

Telephone Company's lines 
connects with the Consoli- 
dated Telephone Company 
service. Guests will be met 
upon request at the "Reed- 
ers" station of the New 
York, Susquehanna & Wes- 
tern Railroad, connecting 
with the Erie Railroad's 
main lines and the Pennsyl- 
vania, and affiliated roads. 

As access to this unique 
resort — located in the midst 
of the West End's famous 
garden spot — is easy with 
proper directions, those con- 
templating a stay should 
write for particulars to Mc- 
Michaels Hotel, McMichaels, 
Monroe County, Pa., and se- 




ttle hottest season. There 



A Corner in the Reception Room at McMichaels Hotel 



cure full information. The 



are accommodations for forty guests and table accommo- 
dations for one hundred. Modern improvements include 
baths, electric lights, etc., while the cuisine is noted 
throughout Eastern Pennsylvania. McMichaels is a 
Mecca for touring parties during the summer and fall 




McMichaels Hotel— Surrounded by Fine Shade T;> 

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large reception room is exposed to the cool breezes on 
two sides. The mail service is prompt every day. 
Guests will find the accommodations of the highest class, 
and comfortable without formality, so often found in re- 
sorts of this character catering to cosmopolitan patrons 

of high social stand- 
ing. Here may be 
found woods, water- 
falls, and mountain 
scenery of varying 
character. Here, too, 
may be found every 
opportunity for 
amusements of a 
different nature from 
the general run. 
Walks, drives, and 
automobile trips lead 
in many directions, 
giving a choice of des- 
tination for each day. 
The management is 
active, the sons of the 
owner being alive to 
the needs of city 
guests. Winter sports 
attract many people 
to this well known 
and popular resort. 



Germond's, at Bushkill, Is the Mecca of Autoists 

AND OTHERS WHO APPRECIATE THE FINEST FRENCH AND AMERICAN COOKING 



AMONG the eqicures who come to Monroe and Pike 
counties from every part of New York State and from 
Pennsylvania, or for that matter anywhere, one needs only 
to mention Germond's to indicate highest standard in cui- 
sine and service. While catering in the dining service to 
the tourist trade, on an extensive scale, this establishment 




can accommodate about twenty regular or transient guests. 
The house is strictly modern in appointments, has an 
abundance of shade, and is perhaps the most popular 
rendezvous for autoists along the Delaware Valley. It is 
located on the banks of the Big Bushkill, ten minutes' walk 
from the Delaware River, and owned by A. Germond. The 

best of French and Am- 
erican cooking sets the 
standard for high class 
cuisine in this section. 
Monroe County's own 
people are learning to 
appreciate the quality 
service here rendered 
to the guests. Luncheon 
or dinner always proves 
a series of surprises at 
Germond's. And truly 
that is "enough said." 
For detailed informa- 
tion and booklets, write 
to Germond's, Bushkill, 
Pike County, Pa. 

The house has ac- 
commodations with pri- 
vate bath and is in 
every respect modern 
in all its appointments. 



The Prospect House, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

CATERS TO GUESTS WHO APPRECIATE HOMELIKE 
SURROUNDINGS IN SUMMER OR WINTER 

pENTRALLY located in East Stroudsburg, in the county 
^of Monroe, the Prospect House under the management 
of Charles W. and Mrs. Decker, meets the requirements of 
summer guests who want the combination of modern con- 
veniences, comfortable sitting rooms, plenty of fresh air, 
a good table, pure spring water, excellent service and mod- 
erate rates. Easy walking distance to and from the Lacka- 
wanna station, convenient access to amusements in the 




Stroudsburgs, opportunities for sight-seeing trips, the usual 
facilities for the enjoyment of summer sports, such as fish- 
ing, etc., all these combine to make the Prospect House, 
with its home-like surroundings, shady lawns and agreeable 
company, a desirable summer home. Rates range from $7 
to $10 per week. For reservations address Chas. Decker, 
proprietor of the Prospect House, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Stroudsburg Has in Miss Carolyn 

Shops a Representative Millinery Store 




DEGINNING in February, 1911, in limited quarters, Miss 
•^-'Carolyn L. Miller, formerly of New York City, has built 
up one of the leading millinery establishments in Strouds- 
burg. In September, 1911, Miss Miller moved to her present 
quarters, where she keeps a competent corps of helpers. 



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Sectional View of Interior of Stroudsburg Creamery, Showing a Part of the Modern Facilities of the Plant 



THE STROUDSBURG CREAMERY MEET! 
ALL REQUIREMENTS OF SANITAT! 

AND PERFECT TABLE PRODUCTS IN BUTTER, ICE CREAM AND PASTEURIZED MILK 



WITH a completely equipped plant in Stroudsburg 
and a creamery at Sand Hill, in the West End, 
the "garden spot" of Monroe County, and another 
at Stormsville, in the famous Cherry Valley, the 
Stroudsburg Creamery Company, having its main 
office in Stroudsburg, Pa., is in a splendid position to take 
care of an ever increasing demand for its products. 

The raw materials needed in the process of manufacture 
of butter and ice cream, coming as they do largely from 
dairies, owned by individuals, have to be constantly tested 
for certain standards. To accept inferior milk means also 
the production of inferior butter. The Stroudsburg Cream- 
ery, since changing management on December 1, 1914, has 
placed its standards on a plane with the leading producers 
of the United States of America, insisting at all times on 
first standard mater- 
ial for the making of 
its fine table butter. 
The cream is separa- 
ted from the milk — 
brought to their cream- 
eries in the country — 
at these plants. The 
convenience of having 
the creameries near 
the dairies is not the 
only factor calling for 
their maintenance. 
The fact that the 
milk reaches these 
creameries quickly is 
an advantage to the 
consumer. It means 
better condition of 
cream. The Strouds- 
burg plant is equipped 
for separating, be- 
cause many milch- 
cow owners find ship- 
ping to the home plant 
a more direct way of 
getting there prompt- 
ly. The cream is also brought to Stroudsburg from their 
own separating stations, insuring perfect production of 
butter under one management. This allows for the elim- 
ination of any cream, not up to the highest standard. 
The Stroudsburg Creamery Company's butter is put up 
in one-pound prints — carefully wrapped in waxed paper, 
as well as in tubs, both going to the consumers, including 
hotels, etc., and the stores in perfect condition. Some of 
their butter goes as far as Washington, D. C. 

The ice cream made by the Stroudsburg Creamery, is 




Plant at Stroudsburg, Pa. Creameries are Also Located at Sand Hill and Stormsville, Pa 



winning favor in and out of the county. The output 
includes bricks and ice cream in special molds, besides one 
quart to ten gallon cans for family, hotel and store trade. 
The large facilities of this establishment — due to the 
varied products — enable the selection of the best mater- 
ials for the ice cream department. In demanding Strouds- 
burg Creamery ice cream the consumer is sure of quality, 
as well as purity. 

The need of pure milk has become so generally recog- 
nized that those who want to be sure of it insist on get- 
ting Pasteurized Milk from the plant of the Stroudsburg 
Creamery. Here the Jensen pasteurizing apparatus is 
being used for best results. Once put up in thoroughly 
clean bottles, the milk can never become contaminated 
or infected before reaching the user. For the bottles are 

automatically filled 
and capped promptly. 
The conditions of the 
plant are such that 
its very cleanliness 
insures purity. Thus 
the baby or the pa- 
tient in sick-bed are 
alike protected by the 
use of the Strouds- 
burg Creamery Com- 
pany's "pasteurized 
milk," whether bought 
at stores or from the 
company's drivers. 
Their milk is also 
shipped in large cans 
to users outside of the 
Stroudsburgs and 
Monroe County. The 
company has two 
milk routes, one in 
Stroudsburg and the 
other in East 
Stroudsburg. 

The most important 
improvement to the 
plant — under the new management — is a> modern refrig- 
erating apparatus, installed by the Prick Company, of 
Waynesboro, Pa., enabling the company to maintain even 
cooling conditions the year around. The Stroudsburg 
Creamery Company was incorporated on January 15, 1915, 
with a capital of $25,000. The officers are Charles R. 
Turn, Stroudsburg. President: George L. Nyce. Bushkill. 
Vice President; W. W. Graham. Stroudsburg, Secretary: 
and Stewart B. Taylor. Treasurer and General Manager. 
Prompt deliveries are made by auto trucks and by wagons. 



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Maple Lawn, at Cresco, Pa., A Beauty Spot in the Pocono Region 

IS UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF H. B. COURTR1GHT, PROPRIETOR 



MAPLE LAWN has been under the same management 
for twenty years. It is conveniently situated 
within two miles of Cresco, Pa., on the Lackawanna 
Railroad. The house is situated on a farm of one hundred 
acres, and accommodates about fifty guests, with ease 
and comfort. Guests find it uniformly attractive in spring, 
summer and autumn. Trout streams are near and con- 
sidered of the best in the county. Nearby is the famous 
Paradise Trout Hatchery. Varying amusements are made 




Maple Lawn, Cresco, Pa., H. B. Courtright, Proprietor 



possible. On a spur of the Pocono Mountains, 2,000 feet 
above tidewater, Maple Lawn commands a magnificent 
view of valley and mountain scenery. The house has 
modern facilities on second and third floors as well as 
first. The piazzas have over 1000 square feet of floor 
space. The air is dry, pure and exhilarating. The views 
of the vicinity compass in their sweep a panorama that 
unfolds from the Poconos on the northwest, across pic- 
turesque Monroe County to the Delaware Water Gap on 

the southeast. Beau- 
tiful and appropriate- 
ly named Paradise 
Valley lies at the foot 
of the eminence which 
gives Maple Lawn site 
and vantage. Building 
sites with water priv- 
ileges are for sale. 
Auto livery, garage 
and stabling facilities 
give good service. 

Guests met at sta- 
tion upon notification 
to the management. 

Products of dairy, 
orchard, garden and 
farm come fresh from 
the premises. Physi- 
cians and churches 
are convenient, depot, 
telegraph and express 
offices 20 minutes' 
drive from the house. 
Address mail, tele- 
graph or 'phone to H. 
B. Courtright, Cresco. 



THE FOREST HOUSE, AT SWIFTWATER, PENNA. 

IN THE POCONO MOUNTAINS, HAS BEEN FOR YEARS A FAVORITE SPOT FOR SUMMER GUESTS 



\17ITHIN two and a half miles of the Mount Pocono 
" station, on the D., L. & W. Railroad, is The Forest 
House, under the management of H. T. Hamblin. The 
house is built at just the right spot to get the breeze, 
no matter in what direction the wind blows. Around the 
buildings are large lawns, shaded here and there by noble 
oaks, maples and 
ornamental trees, 
decorated by 
shrubbery and 
flower-beds. The 
house is modern 
in every respect 
and fully equipp- 
ed with every 
sanitary conveni- 
ence. Large fire- 
places add cheer 
and comfort in 
early spring and 
late autumn when 
mornings are 
cool. This popu- 
lar summer re- 
sort is situated 
on the famous 
Pocono M o u n- 
tains, at an alti- 
tude of 2000 feet 
above tidewater. 
Open from first 
of May until No- 
vember, The For- 
est House caters 
to people of re- 
finement who ap- 
preciate homelike 



surroundings. The table is supplied from the farm in 
connection with the house. Booklets and information 
can be obtained by writing to H. T. Hamblin, Proprietor, 
Swiftwater, Pa. There is tennis and other diversions 
here, and a golf course within walking distance. Car- 
riages will — upon notice — meet trains at Mount Pocono. 




The Forest House, Harry T. Hamblin, Proprietor, Swiftwater, Pa. 

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Winter in the Poconos— An Enjoyable Pastime 

WINTER OUT-OF-DOORS IS MORE AND MORE FINDING ADHERENTS, AS IS INDICATED 
BY THE EVIDENCE ON THIS PAGE SECURED AT THE WINTER INN, BUCK HILL FALLS, PA. 



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EALTH is Wealth. This old saying has been recog- 
nized by Europeans for years. Switzerland, the fa- 
mous Alps, the Austrian Tyrol, all have had their 
share in bringing home to the health and pleasure seeker 
the advantages of a sojourn there. Few there are in this 
country who know, however, that actual winter health re- 
sorts in these regions annually draw thousands in mid- 
winter to regain lost health. "Sleep outdoors, well cover- 
ed," is one of the great prescriptions given those who have 
broken down under the strain of business or professional 
life, as they are being directed to one or the other moun- 
tain health resorts of Europe. 

Life in this country for many years aimed only for 
recreation at cool summer retreats and warm winter 
beaches. A change has come over the people of this 
nation within the past few years only — a change for the 
better, since it appeals especially to red-blooded Ameri- 
cans that it is much better to build up the system to resist 
the many ills to which life is heir rather than to be 
chased by them to a milder climate and eventually meet- 
ing them with a depleted 
constitution. 

Those Americans who 
have visited the Northern 
European section during 
the season, when in Den- 
mark, Norway and Swe- 
den sports — such as skiing, 
sleighing, etc. — are at their 
height, have come away im- 
bued with the belief that 
they have missed something 
in the past. Those, too, who 
have gone to the Alps and 
witnessed guide after guide 
take out tourists on moun- 
tain climbing trips over the 
snow-clad peaks return home 
with a new incentive. 
All these things have made 





Skating As a Pastime Near the Winter Inn 

sort points the advantage of winter sport and all-year 
health resorts. The Pocono Mountains, in Pennsylvania, 

have of late years been kept 
before the people of the 
Eastern States as a real 
winter pleasure resort re- 
gion, the campaign of edu- 
cation having been led by 
the owners of the Buck Hill 
Falls, whose genial mana- 
ger, C. N. Thompson, be- 
lieves in the outdoor life. 
The Buck Hill Falls Asso- 
ciation own property of uni- 
que and distinctive appear- 
ance and location in the 
heart of the inspiring health 
giving Poconos. That their 
efforts to educate the peo- 
ple to the enjoyment of all 
outdoor sports in this re- 
it's Easy Sledding in the Vicinity of The Winter Inn, Buck Hill Kails, Pa. gion have borne fruit is evi- 
themselves felt throughout the country until all mountain denced in the success of The Winter Inn open at Buck 
regions are having added to their prestige as summer re- Hill Falls, Pa., all winter. Moreover, their achievement 

has found an echo in the maintenance of the Mount 
Pleasant House, at Mt. Pocono, and of the Pocono 
Manor, at Pocono Manor, Pa., resort as all winter 
recreation points. There is sleighing, skating, skiing, 
tobogganing a-plenty to be had in this region, which 
in the past has made its strong appeal only on the 
grounds of being a summer season section. It is 
being changed. For those who seek to combine the 
comfort of a modern indoors in the woods and homey 
hospitality away from home enjoy such places as the 
Buck Hill Falls, and others in this region. Glass en- 
closed porches and sun parlors afford opportunities 
for the "shut-ins" who need exercise. Cheerful gam- 
ing rooms, allowing for the more sedentary games 
of checkers, chess, etc., nine "holes" of indoor golf 
and hand tennis, are provided. The cuisine appeals 
to all. For winter resorts in the Poconos are managed 
by men who know that the inner man must not be for- 
gotten. All these things are possible in winter in the 
Poconos in an atmosphere which cannot be surpassed. 




Havinga liood Time in Hurrett Township 



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I The Henryville House at Henryville, Pa. 

! LNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF E. R. HENRY, AFFORDS COMFORT AND PLEASURE 



EUGENE R. HENRY, owner of the Henryville House, 
conducts a pleasant mountain resort, beautifully situ- 
ated in the Pocono Mountains; one quarter mile from the 
Lackawanna Railroad station. It is high, healthy and cool, 
and has shady walks and drives. The house is conducted 
with an eye to the 
comfort of the 
guests ; at rates 
ranging from $8 to 
$12 per week. Fine 
roads, cascades, 
waterfalls, rhododen- 
dron and laurel are 
here ta attract the 
visitor. Perfect sani- 
tary conditio ns, 
steam heat and gas 
light make country 
life enjoyable here. 
Good trout fishing 
in season brings 
back every year reg- 
u 1 a r guests, who 
know that the excell- 
ent table is supplied 
with fresh eggs, 
milk and vegetables 
from the farm at- 
tached. Pure spring 



water appeals to all. Local and long distance telephone 
and telegraph connections satisfy the city man who wishes 
to spend the week-end. The house opens April 15, giving 
home comforts throughout the season. For information 
write Eugene R. Henry, Henryville House, Henryville, Pa. 




Henryville House, Henryville, Pa., E. R. Henry, Proprietor 



The Fairview House, Mount Pocono, Pa. 

IS A BUSY CENTER IN SUMMER AND A MODERN HOSTELRY ALL THE YEAR 
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THE management of the Fairview House, Mount Poco- 
no, Pa., must be imbued with the idea that the way 
to a man's heart is through his stomach. "The proof 
of the pudding is in the eating," they say, and here it is 
true. The proof is not only good evidence, but sufficiently 
good to appeal to the man with a fancy for variety as well. 



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city of the house readily provides for seventy-five guests. 
Good bowling alleys are only five hundred feet from the 
house. Fishing may be had in private preserves in Devil's 
Hole and Brodhead's Creek. The Fairview is but three 
minutes' walk from the Lackawanna station. Special rates 
for spring and fall can be had here, two persons in one 

room, $22 per week 




The Fairview House and Annex. Mt. Pocono, Pa., G 

Modern improvements, including gas, electric lights, steam 
heat, broad shaded piazzas, wide halls and light airy rooms 
afford city conveniences under the most favorable moun- 
tain life conditions. The annex — only fifty feet from the 
main building — is frequented by many who seek the pri- 
vacy of their rooms during the day or evening. The capa- 

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and up; single, $12 
per week and up; 
July, August and un- 
til September 15th, 
two persons in one 
room, $25 per week 
and up; one person 
in a room, $12 per 
week and up — ac- 
cording to location. 
Rates per day, $2.50 
and up. The Mount 
Pocono Casino is 
only two min u t e s' 
walk from the house 
and contains all the 
popular diversi o n s, 
such as pool and bil- 
liards, dance floor, 
and promenade. Re- 
M. Shoemaker, Manager servations may be 

made by addressing, G. M. Shoemaker, Fairview House, 
Mount Pocono, Pa. 

Winter sports in the Pocono Mountains are attracting 
large numbers of city guests, as well as the usual sum- 
mer guests. The Fairview House is open throughout the 
year and will give first-class attention to all. 

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Is the Latest Creation of the Builders' Art Amidst Natural Surroundings 



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N" ATURE has been kind to the spot selected by Mr. 
and Mrs. H. E. Geissinger, as the promontory 
upon which to build the stately structure, known 
as the Monomonock Inn. Overlooking a fertile val- 
ley in the famous Pocono Mountain region — in the 
center of Barrett Township — and within walking distance 
of the Lackawanna station at Cresco, Pa., there has come 
into being within twelve months past a modern summer 
resort with every city convenience. There will be real 
life at this spot, but there will be no need 
to fear that rest and recreation will lose 
half of its charms by too much formality. 
It is true that modern service will make 
one feel that a first-class city hotel has 
been transplanted to the country, but there 
will be so much elbow room that guests will 
be able to mingle with their own friends 
without intrusion or make friends at plea- 
sure with other guests. Still it will retain 
the character of a modern home in refined 
surroundings. 

Tennis, croquet, shuffleboard and many 
other outdoor amusements are here, with 
golf nearby. There is hunting and fishing 
in season. Local and long distance tele- 
phone connections. A children's play- 
ground is provided. Special spring and 
fall rates will give this house a long sea- 
son. Buck Hill and Paradise Falls are some 
of the attractions. Guests will be met at 
Cresco, on the main line of the D., L. & W. 
R. R., where baggage should be checked. 

The main floor is spacious lounging room 
and office, so arranged that even transients, 
such as motoring parties, can secure a cer- 
tain privacy, separately for ladies and for 
gentlemen, as dressing rooms adjoin rooms 
set aside for such guests at each end of the building. A 
sun parlor at one end and a smoking room at the other 
end of this floor add individual comfort. A commodious 
lobby and large reception rooms and parlor, fire places of 
unique construction and towering size add distinction. 
Wide staircases, all open, lead to the upper floors, where 
hot and cold water connection in the sleeping chambers, 



with private bathing facilities attached. Large family 
rooms are also provided. 

That the inner man will be looked after with care, is 
shown in the kitchen, which is as large as some large 
dining rooms and fully as well lighted. The ranges are 
set up along the entire wall. Separate refrigerating stor- 
age in two sections is provided for immediate kitchen use, 
and the refrigerators are provided with a complete artificial 
cooling system. In addition there is a large storage sec- 





Side View Monomonock Inn, Mountainhome, Pa. 
some even with private baths, all lighted by electricity, 
indicate the character of this house. Public baths are 
provided with some showers, rather than a preponderance 
of tubs, while private bathrooms at floor ends have the 
tub facilities needed for those who do not engage rooms 

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Front View, Monomonock Inn, after Hilltop Is Reached 

tion arranged in a corridor adjoining, where meats, vege- 
tables and such things as butter, milk, etc., are cared for 
in three large separate sections. A steam heating plant 
also assures late season or winter guests of comfort. The 
dining room is as distinctive as it is large, while pantry, 
and children's dining rooms, and a private dining room 
for the use of the help, etc., are close by. The roadway 
is in splendid condition for all classes 
of vehicles. Comfort is assured. One 
hundred and fifty guests can be ac- 
commodated and rates will range from 
$12.00 to ?25.00, in spite of the lux- 
uries afforded. The scenery is worthy 
of the place. The electric plant is 
modern in every detail. The house is 
a credit to the county, already proud 
of the many splendid resort houses. 
Full information and reservations can 
be had by addressing H. E. & .1. M. 
Geissinger, Monomonock Inn. Moun- 
tainhome, Monroe County, Pennsyl- 
vania. The house will be open for 
the first time this season, but all con- 
struction work was done before the 
fall season ended in 1914, giving 
every opportunity for thorough dry- 
ing of plaster, so that absolute com- 
fort is assured. There is every ad- 
vantage of natural beauty retained. 
Shaded grounds, ample porch room, 
beautiful vistas, all these aid in mak- 
ing the stay here agreeable. No 
need to walk down hill for exercise, 
as there is plenty of level ground on 
top of the hill amidst forest growth 
beginning within a stone's throw of 
the house. The woods here possess 
a charm of their own, and to those so inclined offer un- 
usual opportunities for exploitation. Garage facilities 
meet all requirements. The mail service is frequent and 
dailv papers arrive early. Monroe County's latest house 
ente'rs into the activities of resort life thoroughly equipped. 



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TOBYHANNA 

MONROE COUNTY 

POINT OF ATTRACTION ON THE MAIN LINE OF THE D. L. & 
W. RAILROAD-ALSO IS THE GATEWAY TO SOUTH STERL- 
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CYNICS might say that "a rose by any other name might 
smell as sweet." Tobyhanna might have become the 
seat for the U. S. Government's Artillery Training 
Camp, even if the place had been differently named. Un- 
questionably natural conditions entered into the selection 
of this location for this specific purpose. It is only logical 
that the Government should choose healthful surroundings 




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Near The Sterling, South Sterling, Wayne County, Pa 



for the benefit of men whose ambition is to give of their 
best in time of need. It is true in consequence that here 
may be found by the casual visitor and by the ever-return- 
ing summer guest enough of interest to make Tobyhanna 
a Mecca of sightseeing tourists. 

If there were nothing else, this railway station would 
hold its prestige of a busy summer scene gained through 
the traffic to and from the Camp. F. C. O'Rourke, owner of 
the Mountain House, at Tobyhanna, gets the benefit of the 
automobile parties, because he looks after the interests of 
his transient guests with the same zealous care bestowed 
upon a limited number of summer vacationists. Mr. O'- 
Rourke took possession of the Mountain House in January, 
1911, and has gained a satisfied patronage by his liberal 
treatment of all. As his house caters to a cosmopolitan 
people, he aims to keep his cafe up to the standard of 
his patrons. 

There are other resorts in this vicinity and many of the 
summer guests take a meal at the Mountain House, either 
going to or coming from the Government Camp. The 
Pennsylvania Railroad also reaches Tobyhanna via its 
Belvidere Division in the summer season. There are those 
who travel to this point also to reach the beautiful resort 
section of Wayne County, of which South Sterling, Pa., is 
an important center. It is located on the North side of 
the Poconos and, by reason of its picturesque location and 
healthful climate, one of the rapidly growing resorts of the 
Pocono region. Free from dampness and fresh from being 
wafted over the mountain tops, the atmosphere is uniform 
and invigorating. The constant breezes insure comfort on 
the warmest days and the nights are invariably cool; yet 
the air is soft and balmy. Those suffering from malarial 
diseases find the climate an almost perfect specific. The 



water is supplied from high-source mountain springs in 
unlimited quantities. Nature has been kind in her gift of 
wild flowers. From early spring, until October brings its 
richly hued foliage, there is a continuous bloom of moun- 
tain beauties. June brings the rhododendron, the pride of 
the Poconos. 

This is the setting in which the stranger finds The 
Sterling, at South Sterling, 
Pa., commanding not only a 
broad view of the mountain 
range, but also one of the 
bends of the Wallenpaupac, 
whose rippling waters tell a 
never ending story of moun- 
tain freedom. The house is 
new, modern and sanitary. 
The bedrooms are arranged 
singly or en suite. The din 
ing room is commodious and 
so arranged that tables may 
be reserved for families. The 
veranda is 120 feet long, of 
generous width and angles 
that afford sunshine and 
shade throughout the day. 
The conveniences iuclude gas 
light, hot and cold water, 
baths. The cuisine has the 
advantage of home cooking 
and supplies from the farm 
connected with the house. A 
trout stream is on the prem- 
ises. E. D. Dunning, to whom 
all mail should be addressed 
at South Sterling, Pa., is the 
owner. This is the fifth year 
of The Sterling as a resort. 
Previous to the change from a family home, which it had 
been for twenty years, the place had been in the same 
ownership, assuring to guests the continuance of a home- 
like atmosphere under improved conditions. Local and 
long distance telephone connections give the guest a 
feeling of nearness to the far away city home or office. 
The railway station is Tobyhanna, where baggage should 
be checked. Drives and mountain walks may be enjoyed 
here, where forty guests can readily be accommodated. 




Mountain House, F. C O'Rourke, Proprietor, Tobyhanna, Pa. 

Here the Pocono Mountains hold their sway — as else- 
where in this region — over the health and pleasure seeker 
who finds the nooks and corners of the far-reaching coun- 
ties of Monroe and Wayne, wherever guests may be located. 



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T. M. Lynch & Bros. Are Successfully Conducting 

A GENERAL MERCHANDISE BUSINESS IN TOBYHANNA, PA., WHILE DEVOTING SOME TIME TO 
THE LYNCH WOOD LAKE ICE CO. AND THE TOBYHANNA SOUVENIR & NOVELTY MFG. COMPANY 



_ _ ATIVES of Monroe County, being at home where 
_^j they now do business, the three brothers, Thomas 
M. Lynch, George C. Lynch and James P. Lynch, 
opened a general merchandise store in limited 

quarters at Tobyhanna, Pa., in 1903. T. M. Lynch had 

previously been connected with the Tobyhanna & Lehigh 

Lumber Company, entering 

that company's service in 1889. 

So rapid had been the success 

of the new firm that T. M. 

Lynch & Bros, erected the 

present structure in 1908, in 

order to meet more efficiently 

the demands of their patrons. 

Besides this building, which is 

wholly devoted to business, the 

firm has another structure 

close by, where in season the 

Ice Cream Parlor is located. 

There room is also provide! 

for the handling of huckleber- 
ries, in which line the firm is 

rated as extensive wholesale 

shippers. T. M. Lynch & Bros. 

carry a full line of general 




ing careful attention to all customers. They also do a 
retail coal business. The members of the firm are also 
the owners of the Lynchwood Lake Ice Company, whose 
crop comes from their artificial lake — about two and one- 
half miles East of Tobyhanna. This company ships ice 
to New York City, Philadelphia, and to many local points. 

in like manner do the mem- 
bers of the firm of T. M. Lynch 
& Bros, control the Tobyhanna 
Souvenir & Novelty Manufac- 
turing Company, making rustic 
mission novelties, as well as 
rosewood clocks and ether spec- 
ialties in rosewood, there be- 
ing a good demand for the 
product among the novelty 
trade. 

T. M. Lynch does not con- 
fine his attention to affairs in 
his home town. He bslieves 
that the whole county has a 
right to call on him for a bit 
of attention. That this public- 
spirit — coupled with keen busi- 
ness judgment — has won him 



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Store Buildings Occupied By T. M. Lynch , 
Tobyhanna, Pa. 

merchandise, including groceries, meats, hardware, dry recognition is evidenced by the fact that he has been elect- 
goods, boots and shoes, flour, feed, hay, cement, etc., giv- ed as a director of the East Stroudsburg National Bank. 



TLo Liberty.' vlgs M 

CATERS TO TRANSIENT TRADE 
SUCCESSFULLY 



THERE are many who take a short spin up the Dela- 
ware Valley in their automobiles. Often they find out 
too late that gasoline is short. W. L. Fehr, owner of the 
Liberty House, Craigs Meadows, between East Strouds- 



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The Liberty House, Craigs Meadows, W. I.. Fehr, Proprietor 

burg and Marshall's Creek, always has it on tap. And thus 
an oversight is amended without difficulty. Meals are 
promptly served, and the passing crowds made happy. 
There are ample shaded grounds for a rest. Mr. Fehr has 
had the house several years, owns the property which con- 
sists of a fair-sized farm in connection and the building 
known as the Liberty House, a popular wayside Inn. 



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AIMS TO PLEASE WITH PROMPT 
SERVICE 

YOUTH is often considered a barrier in business, when 
it is linked with lack of experience. In Floyd C. Van 
Why it spells physical prowess and ability to cope with 
any problem that may confront him in hauling freight of 
every description, baggage, and anything else that may 
need to be moved from one place to another. Persons re- 
quiring such service find it a good move to call Floyd C. 
Van Why. The business conducted by him was started in 
1886 by his father, Calvin VanWhy, the son taking hold in 



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1912. Anyone needing an expressman only has to call Mr. 
VanWhy, on the Stroudsburg & Bushkill Telephone, asking 
for 247-A, to be sure of both satisfaction ami action, in 
1913 Mr. VanWhy realized that a storage house is a valua- 
ble adjunct to the express business. He, therefore, started 
one at 291 South I 'curt land Street. Floyd C. VanWhy is a 
native of East Stroudsburg. where he has made many 
friends, and is prepared to give service in both the Strouds- 
burgs at any time upon short notice at reasonable prices. 



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SNOWFLAKE SELF-RAISING BUCKWHEAT FLOUR 

FROM THE SNOWFLAKE ROLLER MILLS OF G. DINSTEL & SON IS GIVING 
EFFORT, PA., FAME AS A MANUFACTURING CENTER 



qp HE firm of G. Dinstel & Son, of which W. H. Dinstel is 
■* now owner, started at Effort in 1892, working as Custom 
Millers in an old 
country mill. In 1895 
they remodeled the 
old plant to a Roller 
Flour Mill, it becom- 
ing known as the 
Snowflake Roller 
Mills of G. Dinstel 
and Son. In 1901 this 
firm introduced the 
"Snowflake Self-Rais- 
ing Buckwheat 
Flour," finding it hard 
sledding at first. 

Gradually they suc- 
ceeded in getting a 
foothold with their 
product until now 
there are but few 
families in Monroe 
County whose mem- 
bers do not realize 
that G. Dinstel and 
Son's Snowflake Self 
Raising Buckwheat 
Flour fully deserves 
its name. In 1905 
William Henry Din- 
stel assumed the busi- 
ness entirely and has 
successfully continued 

since then, doing business under the firm name of G. 
Dinstel and Son. Mr. Dinstel is now forty years of age 
and possesses the energy necessary to carry on a grow- 



ing business. On October 1, 1914, W. H. Dinstel accepted 
the position of Postmaster at Effort, being fully able to 




Snowflake Roller Mills and General Merchandise Store of G. Dinstel & Son, Effort, Pa. 

conduct this work in conjunction with his extensive mer- 
chandise business. The premises are well arranged for 
work, the mill being in a semi-detached building. 



The Broad Silk Mill of Lippman & Abrash 
Is a Growing Stroudsburg, Pa., Concern 

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V\7 ITH the advent of Lippman & Abrash in Stroudsburg 
' 'in 1912, the silk industry received another impetus. 
The firm has a capacity of 88 looms, a payroll approximat- 
ing $40,000 a year for 65 employees, an investment of $35,- 
000, to which must be added general stock capacity of an- 
other $35,000. They do all work, except the dyeing and 
finishing, which is done by affiliated firms for them. Their 
business totals close to a quarter of a million dollars a 




year. In 1914, the firm moved into the present quarters, 
especially built for their own use, where the best lighting 
facilities and room for future expansion were provided. 
Their market is largely in New York City. The members 
of the firm are: Louis Lippman, who looks after the gen- 
eral office, purchasing and sales departments, and Alex- 
ander Abrash, who superintends the manufacturing end. 



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The Cameron Engineering Company 

Of East Stroudsburg Has a National Market 

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T OCATED in East Stroudsburg, Pa., the Cameron Engi- 
neering Company does a nation-wide business in over- 
head handling devices, including monorail carryings; 
stems, transfer cranes and kindred products. They manu- 
facture the famous Economy Transfer Truck, which is 
used in connection with wooden platforms in handling 
heavy loads. These trucks are rapidly displacing the old 
flat top truck as an economical and labor saving method 
of handling goods of all descrip- 
tions. The officers of this com- 
pany are: Louis Rupprecht, Presi- 
dent; George S. Pullinger, secre- 
tary, and actively directing the af- 
fairs of the plant; 
H. B. Drake, treas- 
urer; and Hon. Har- /*• 
vey Huffman, solic- 
itor, all well known 
in Monroe. 




Portable Crane Made by Cameron Engineering Co. 

So rapidly has the business grown that the Company is now 
receiving orders from all parts of the United States. 



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The Plant of Simon Shupp & Co.'s Spoke Works, at Effort, Pa., Has Large Storing Capacity 



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ANUFACTURERS OF SPOKES 



HAVE TAKEN THEIR PLACE AMONG THE LEADING INDUSTRIES OF MONROE COUNTY 



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_, IONEERS who stuck to it helped to make the 
g~ manufacturing end of Monroe County what it is 
today. The younger generation is cognizant of 
the fact that modern methods in every branch of 
a business enhance the value of the confidence gained 
by their elders. The firm of Simon Shupp and Co. was 
established in 1906, after the death of Simon Shupp, who 
was the founder of the business. He started in 1878. 

Without any effort, other than close attention to detail 
and honesty of purpose, the demands for the product grew, 
forcing increased facilities from time to time. Today the 
company is manufacturing spokes, neck yokes, whiffle 
trees, handles, etc., the raw material coming from the 
neighboring section, while the output largely goes to 
points in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

The timber is cut during a period extending from about 
the middle of October to March 1. Then it is stacked, 
being well preserved, until the sawing starts in March, 
when the first fall cut receives attention. Oak is then 
cut into thirty inch lengths, hickory into twenty inch 
lengths. These are then cross cut, from seven to eight 
inches in diameter, halved and quartered, if necessary, so 
that they can be handled more easily on the bolter saw, 
which cuts them out in billots. 

One season's record shows about 133,000 of these 
sawed. The bark is removed, and they are stacked again, 
being air-seasoned for a year or more, when they go to 
the dry-sheds. After that they are ready for the mill, 
where they are turned into the desired shape. 

Coming first from the tenon machine, they go to the 
throater machine, facer, belter and polisher in turn, when 
they are ready for the grading. Then they are packed 
into sets of fifty-two for a whole wagon: long and short 
spokes; and in half sets of twenty-six. 

A visit to this mill and their warehouse is interesting. 
The man familiar with woods finds the process enter- 
taining, as he calculates the time it took to grow each tree 
and sees man and machinery destroy its natural beauty, 
to create something useful in a very' limited time. 



The man who believes in doing things will admire the 
facilities for quick production of an output much in de- 
mand. He will look into the stockrooms and wonder 
where and when this or that set, or this or that lot of 
handles may come under his observing eye again. 

It requires much attention to prepare for each new 
season, while the investment is large enough to place 
Simon Shupp and Co. at the head of important industrial 
factors in the West End, and readily has won them recog- 
nition among the enterprising industries in Monroe. 

Strange as it may seem, this firm has found its busi- 
ness grow steadily under conditions lacking one import- 
ant facility, railroad trackage. There is at present no 
railroad tapping the West End's growing business com- 
munity, Effort, Pa., although indications point to a change 
in this direction. But in spite of this disadvantage, which 
forces the company to ship from nearby railroad stations, 
the firm successfully competes with other makers, gaining 
an advantage by reason of smaller overhead charges. 

Homer S. Shupp, the manager of the firm of Simon 
Shupp & Co., belongs to the younger class of business men. 
His enterprise — backed by his associates — has placed the 
spoke works in their proper position among competitive 
concerns. Similar enterprise on the part of West End 
business firms will put Effort, Pa., and other towns per- 
manently on the map. Owing to the great demand for 
materials, turned out by Simon Shupp & Co., among 
people who call at the Effort plant, it has brought about 
a demand for certain lines of hardware. To meet require- 
ments, this firm carries a stock of needed articles for 
general local and nearby trade. All spokes, axe handles, 
etc., manufactured in their own plant, are also supplied 
for local demand, although the bulk of the output goes to 
the trade in and out of the state. 

Shipping facilities are so arranged that the product of 
this plant goes to the nearest station of the railroad hav- 
ing the most direct route to the respective stations of 
its many customers. In this manner the various railroad 
centers near Effort, Pa., are used at various times. 



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East StroMckibiiirg jBumgalows 



arimacy, 

REFLECTS CREDIT UPON DR. HORACE BUSH, 
THE OWNER 

r^ RADUATING from the Jefferson Medical College, Phil- 
^-'adelphia, Dr. Horace Bush started in the practice of 
medicine in the same year. In 1890 Dr. Bush started the 
Crystal Pharmacy, on Washington Street, East Strouds- 
burg, continuing as a medical practitioner without inter- 
ference with his business. Few men are better known in 



Campee's Island 




Monroe County, his father and brother having also been 
physicians in this county for years. Naturally many of 
his fellow practitioners felt safe in entrusting their pre- 
scriptions to the drug store conducted by a graduate of 
medicine. Besides drugs, a specialty is made of package 
candies, cigars, toilet articles and soda fountain drinks. 
Dr. Bush is ably assisted by Doc Walter Bronner, who 
will be found on duty when the owner is away from the store. 



IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH NATURE AND THE CITY 
LUTHER S. HOFFMAN'S HOBBY 

r IFE in the country is appreciated by all. Nature's rerne- 
■ L/ dies, quietude, fresh air, pure water and fresh farm 
products excel all other vitalizing and invigorating influ 
ences. This fact has been recognized to such an extent 
that even the busy men of the Stroudsburgs go away for a 
change during the summer. But they do not have to go far. 
Luther S. Hoffman, president of the East Stroudsburg Lum- 
ber Co., affiliated with other business interests and recently 
elected president of the local Board of Trade, spends his 
summers on Van Campen's Island, on the Delaware river 
and in sight of the famous Delaware Water Gap, where he 




enjoys boating, bathing and bass fishing. He has become 
the owner of several bungalows adjoining his own and will 
rent them to desirable tenants for the season. Telephone 
service with the mainland and the cities. A quiet vacation 
can be spent here by the city man who wishes to remain 
in touch with others. Mr. Hoffman may be addressed for 
terms and all information at East Stroudsburg, Penna. 



Watson's Barlbeir Shop at 23 S. Crystal St., The News 



Current Magazines 



EAST STROUDSBURG, IS MODERN 
AND WELL PATRONIZED BY LOCAL AND SUMMER CUSTOMERS 

/"OCCASIONALLY one still hears the hard worked ques- 
^tion: "Where do you get shaved?" It would be simple 
enough to give the usual answer in Monroe County: "On 
my face, of course." But in East Stroudsburg some of the 
leading business men feel proud to answer: "At Watson's 
Barber Shop." This is natural enough when consideration 




Watson's Modern Barber Shop, East Stroudsburg 

is given to the fact that Miles J. Watson was born in the 
borough, knows nearly everybody worth knowing and is 
favorably known to those he knows. Several years ago Mr. 
Watson installed new fixtures and thus proved to the 
public that their patronage was greatly appreciated. 



APPEAL TO STRANGERS FROM THE HANDS OF 
FRANK H. ECKERT 

TpOURISTS who frequent the station of the D., L. & W. R. 
■*• R. and every traveling man who passes through the sta- 
tion will acknowledge that the East Stroudsburg railway 
center gains a big share of its real life from the stentorian 
voice of Frank H. Eckert, the man who supplies the news. 
He trusts his regular customers with complacent faith in 
his fellow man. He 
is portly and they 
say that heavy set 
men are good natur- 
ed. Frank Eckert is 
all of that. To get a 
little candy or a 
smoke at his stand 
at the station is the 
opening wedge for 
his kindly face to 
beam on strangers 
and help to make 
them feel at home. 
And his own towns- 
people, for he was 
born in this town, 
like him, because he 
serves them with the 
same zealous atten- 
tion to which Frank 
Eckert would feel 
his best friend en- 
titled. His is indeed 
a life of service, jol- 
ly good service at 
that, in behalf of his 
patrons and of his 
fellow man Frank Eckert's Newsstand at Lackawanna Station 

H. Eckert may have his faults, but one thing is certain that 
he was rightly named, when he was baptized Frank. He was 
born that way and is naturally frank in everything he does. 





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■SULTS ACHIEVED IN A FEW YEARS E'Y 



THE L. D. SOFHER CO. 

Wholesale Grocers of East Stroudsburg, Penna., Place the House in the 
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OST people demand in this advanced age that every 
avenue of supply be brought near to their own 
business establishments to insure convenient and 
economical handling of merchandise. L. D. Sopher, 
a native of Wayne County, New York, who was 
formerly in the fruit and produce business, making a spec- 
ialty of apples, started in East Stroudsburg in 1907 as a 
wholesale grocer, meeting every need of quick service. 
In June, 1910, the L. D. Sopher Company was incorporated 
with the following officers: H. B. Drake, President; L. 
D. Sopher, Treasurer, and Harry Olldorf, Secretary. Mr. 
Drake had formerly been in the retail grocery business in 
East Stroudsburg where he was for a number of years a 



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patrons. "Eventually" the readers of this edition will learn 
that the L. D. Sopher Company also has the exclusive 
distributing agency in this section for the widely known 
"Gold Medal Flour." Made in Minnesota, this product of 
one of the greatest milling industries in this country has 
found its way into many homes in every part of the Union. 
The Rose-O-Cuba, an excellent 5 cent cigar made in 
Reading, is sold exclusively at wholesale by this firm in the 
territory covered by their sales force. Some assert that 
the Rose-O-Cuba, popular everywhere and very much so 
in the West, can be obtained in this section wherever 
cigars are sold. It is made in nine different shapes. 
The "Revolution Cigar Show Case," a most desirable con- 




Warehouse of L. D. Sopher Co., Wholesale Grocers, Jobbers in Tobacco, Candies, Fruit and Produce, North Courtland Street, Bast Stroud 



member of the firm of Drake & McFall, now known as 
McFall & W'arne. Mr. Olldorf, a native of Monroe County, 
was for a long period connected with the sales department 
of Armour & Co. The L. D. Sopher Co. handles Grocer- 
ies, Tobacco, Cigars, Confectionery, Fruit and Produce, 
doing a wholesale business exclusively and catering only 
to the wants of the merchants. The territory covered ex- 
tends over twenty-live miles in either direction from East 
Stroudsburg. Facilities of this linn for handling all 
merchandise quickly are up to the modern standard, the 
warehouse being situated at ln-l" North Courtland Street, 
one of the main thoroughfares, with building extending 
to the tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
Railroad, giving switching facilities for receiving and ship- 
ping goods in carload lots. The company also has loading 
platforms on the sides of the warehouse, making the prem- 
ises easily accessible to its own trucks and those of its 



venience for the merchant who wishes to save time and 
still offer his patrons cigars in a clean "help yourself" 
manner, is sold by the L. D. Sopher Co. in this territory. 
As distributors of Coca Cola and Moxle, and dealers in 
Soda Fountain Supplies, such as syrups, etc., they give ex- 
cellent service at all times. The company is successfully 
placing on the market hereabouts the "Creasey ice I 
its." used by leading drug stores, resort hotels, and hospi- 
tals, etc., throughout the I'nited States. This modern and 
economic ice crusher lias also found its way into homos, 
cleanliness is a desirable factor In crushing let tor 
table and other uses. The same field ol operation is open 
to them in placing the "Childs" Fire Extinguisher, an ap- 
paratus known to have nipped in the bud many flres. 

For the convenience of its many customers the L. D. 
Sopher Company carries a full line of wrapping paper. 
paper bags, twine, etc., and aims to give prompt service. 



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View at The Braeside Poultry Farm, Stroudsburg, Pa., Showing Home of Robert Eastwick, Proprietor, at Lett 




The Braeside Poultry Farm 
Stroudsburg, Pa. 

Under the Management of Robert Eastwick, Specializes 

in Utility Single-Comb White Leghorns— the 

Best for Egg Production 




STABLISHED in October, 1909, when Robert East- 
wick came to Monroe County from Philadelphia, 
Pa., the Braeside Poultry Farm today is recognized 
as one of the representative business interests of 
this region. Mr. Eastwick started with one hun- 
dred Single Comb White Leghorn Pullets, but in 1915 the 
plant records nearly 1,000 layers. This farm is strictly a 
utility farm, specializing in the production of hens that 
will lay 200 or more eggs a year. Egg production is what 
counts here. There are two laying houses, one 125 feet by 
200 feet, the other a small house in which a few high-record 
certified trap nest hens are kept, a special mated pen. 

The brooder house has a capacity of 3,200 chicks, the 
Hall System being in use. The feed house and incubator 
cellar are separate, the hatching capacity reaching 3,000 
eggs. Fifteen colony houses for raising the young pullets 
are at the far end of the premises. The Single Comb 
White Leghorns of the Braeside Poultry Farm have stood 
the test of the Storrs Egg Laying Competition. Three en- 
tries have been made in the Storrs, the North American 
and the Missouri Egg Laying Contests. Mr. Eastwick has 
bred continually for egg production. 

October 1, 1912, he selected from his flock a pen of 
five pullets and sent them to the second North American 
International Egg-Laying Competition, then conducted at 
Storrs, Connecticut. These five pullets laid 907 eggs dur- 
ing their pullet year. They did not begin to lay quite as 
early as did some in the contest, yet they averaged over 
181 eggs each; these eggs were all laid in a period of about 
ten months. Mr. Eastwick has additional proof that his 



secure prizes there, such as the following will show: — 
Laying Type White Leghorns — First and Third. 
Certified Layers — First, Second, Third and Fourth. 
Leghorn Eggs — Second and Fourth. 

To improve his already heavy-laying strain, Mr. East- 
wick purchased from Ed. Cam, Hoghton, England, his sec- 
ond prize pen in the second Philadelphia North American 
International Egg Laying Competition, Storrs, Conn. The 
certified egg record of these five hens for the year was 
1107 eggs, or an average of over 221 eggs per hen. This 
pen he has mated to a vigorous robust cock, imported from 
Cam, December, 1913, having an excellent pedigree. 

In addition to the Cam hens, he has forty-five Tom 
Barron pure English strain hens in three pens. Shipments 
from the Braeside Poultry Farm are guaranteed to arrive 
safely, the owner only demanding that boxes be opened 
at the Express Office, so that Agent can sign for losses 
which will be replaced. 

This farm is located in the County Seat of the beautiful 
County of Monroe, one of the noted summer resorts of the 
East. Situated in the Delaware Valley and protected on 
the north by the Pocono Mountains and on the south by 
the Blue Ridge Mountains, the climatic conditions are 
ideal for poultry raising and the Eggs for Hatching from 
this locality will produce healthy and vigorous chicks. 
The owner is fortunate in having three railroads and one 
trolley system, viz: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western. 
Pennsylvania, the New York, Susquehanna and Western 
Railroad (Erie), and the trolley direct to Philadelphia. 
The express companies are Adams and Wells Fargo & Co. 



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Panorama View of Braeside Poultry Farm, Stroudsburg, Pa., Robert Eastwick, Proprietor, Showing Home of Owner From the Rear 



stock is of the egg laying type and can produce the Fancy 
Large White Table Eggs, in the prizes carried away by 
him at the Allentown Fair, in September, 1914. Those 
who know the Allentown Fair know what it means to 



With such shipping facilities at hand, orders will be de- 
livered with the least possible delay. Eggs for hatching 
will be shipped by Parcel Post at the request of the pur- 
chaser, but postage for same must be enclosed with order. 



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THE METAL CRAFTERS OUTPUT 

ADDS TO THE INTERNATIONAL FAME OF EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., AS AN INDUSTRIAL CENTER 



T| HE removal of the plant of The Metal Crafters 
from New York City on May 1, 1913, to East 
Stroudsburg, gave to Monroe County another 
opportunity of showing its decided industrial 
progress. This thriving concern has a cash 
capital of ten thousand dollars, besides real estate holdings 
of approximately the same amount. The present plant is 
designed to accommo- 
date from fifty to sixty 
workers and is so 
located and arranged 
that additions may 
be made, as required, 
without disarranging 
in any way the origin- 
al layout of depart- 
ments. The latest 
power machinery for 
operation of the plant 
is in use. 

The output consists 
largely of artistic- 
sheet brass work and 
electro plating, the 
firm specializing in the 
manufacture of Fine 
Bathroom Ware and 
Engraved Plates for 
plumbers' use. The 
product of the plant 
enjoys a world-wide 
distribution, as well as 
a heavy domestic de- 
mand. The firm also 
makes metal goods for 




Plant of the Metal Crafters. East Stroudsburg, Pa 

other manufacturers who for various reasons prefer to 
have the work done here to making it themselves. This 
branch of the business profits by the willingness of the 
management to estimate on practically anything in light 
metal for substantial prospective customers. 

Incidentally a large volume of replating of automobile 
trimmings, gas and electric fixtures, hardware trimmings, 



is shown on this page, enables this concern to handle all 
classes of work calling for special designs. This includes 
everything in their line of use to other manufacturers who 
desire parts of certain output of their own made where 
facilities insure labor-saving quotations. 

Metal novelties of every description can be manufac- 
tured here, as the upper floor is fully equipped for every 

finishing and plating 
process. The demands 
of every branch of the 
novelty trade can be 
satisfied by The Metal 
Crafters, whose patron- 
age comes from all parts 
of the United States, 
including some of the 
largest firms, specializ- 
ing in bathroom ware 
and other novelties. 

Investments on build- 
ings and machinery of 
the plant of The Metal 
Crafters approxi mate 
$25,000— to which must 
be added a payroll of 
about $10,000 a year. 
The capacity of the en- 
tire plant in all depart- 
ments ranges from an 
output of $30,000 to 
$50,000 a year, with suf- 
ficient room for en- 
larging the facilities 
on adjoining property 
owned by the com- 
pany. The third year of business finds The Metal 
Crafters facing the future with a very bright outlook. 




Sectional View of Interior of the Metal Crafters Shops— Showing Stamping 1 lepartment 

store fixtures, tableware, etc., in nickel, brass, copper, sil- 
ver, etc., is done by The Metal Crafters for private parties. 
Since the company increased facilities recently, plans for 
extending the business have been perfected. The equip- 
ment of special machinery, on the main floor, part of which 



They always carry in stock from five to six tons of brass 
parts and sheet brass, so that orders can be executed on 
short notice. They also carry on hand sheet steel and 
iron, as well as other metals, in all of which there is a 
growing demand for specialties. 

The equipment of this plant also enables 
this company to make all special tools for 
their own use in turning out the varying 
products and the many different patterns 
for all purposes of the trade. Thus it is 
certain that customers of The Metal 
Crafters can secure complete service, a 
feature greatly appreciated by those who 
want action. 

The finishing rooms are naturally inter- 
esting, as one watches the process of turn- 
ing silver into gold, as it were, when the 1 
final touches are being put on the highly 
polished brass goods. Another sight — and 
a novelty to the layman — is the production 
of old style or antique finishes — in pattern 
effects in many cases. Pressed or stamp I 
work, bearing complete reproductions of 
scenic and building effects, appeals to the 
uninitiated who is given the opportunity 
to see the work done. He is indeed for- 
tunate who is considered friend enough to 
be shown through. 

M. Russell Yetter is president of the 

company; Fedor A. Weber, vice president 

and general manager; William H. Metz- 

gar, treasurer; and Fred Weber, secretary. 

Mr. Yetter is also president of the East 

Stroudsburg Glass Company and ntliliated 

with other interests of importance. P. A 

Weber and F. Weber are both experts in 

the metal lines, the former having had the 

benefit of years of practical knowledge in 

the manufacturing, as well as constructive departments 

of firms in kindred lines, before be became associated 

with others in the organization favorably known as The 

Metal Crafters. Mr Metzgar is connected with other 



business besides the company of which he is treasurer. 



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F. W. POSTEN, Stroudsburg Jeweler, Has a Modern Store 



D ORN in Stroudsburg, F. W. Posten learned his trade at 
JJ home under P. S. Williams. In 1879 he left for Wilkes- 
Barre. Returning to Monroe County in 1904, he started in 
business first in 
East Stroudsburg 
but later opened 
a store at the cor- 
ner of Main and 
Sixth Streets. 
Forced by a grow- 
ing patronage to 
enlarge his quar- 
ters, he moved to 
the storeroom in 
the Masonic build- 
ing, on October 1, 
1911, where he 
now conducts the 
largest jewelry 
business in the 
county. Mr. Pos- 
ten carries a Iarg i 
stock of dia 
monds, having 
won the confi- 
dence of the pub- 
lic in his integri- 
ty who trust to 
his judgment in 
their selection. 
Employing com- 
petent help, he 
has also built up 
an excellent re 
pair department 
As official rail- 
road watch in- Interior of Jewelry Store of F. W. Poster], 
spector, Mr. Posten has also acquired the patronage of 
many railroad men. In addition to the regular lines, there 



may be found at the jewelry store of F. W. Posten a com- 
plete line of silverware and novelties for gift purposes, 
fountain pens, umbrellas with handles of every description. 

Few men are bet- 
ter known than 
Mr. Posten, who 
has always taken 
an active interest 
in every move for 
the good of his 
town and his 
home county. But 
his trade is not 
confined to home 
patrons, for the 
summer guests — 
who do their 
shopping in the 
Stroud s burgs — 
are pleased with 
his knowledge of 
the business and 
remain some of 
his best custo- 
mers. The store 
is well located in 
the heart of the 
town, right on 
the car line. This 
makes it easy to 
reach from either 
town or from the 
Gap. The stock 
is well displayed 
and easily in- 
spected. Courte- 

Masonic Temple Corner, Stroudsburg, Pa. S y j s th e keynote 

of this store, whether people buy or not. There is an 
atmosphere of "welcome for all to look around." 




Shultz's Quality Shops 



At East Stroudsburg and Strouds- 
burg, Are Justly Entitled to tbe 
Distinction of Quality 

SOMEONE said recently, "This happened in 1898," sub- 
stantiating his claim by the statement that in the same 
year S. Shultz came to East Stroudsburg and started 
in the men's furnishing line on Crystal Street, opposite 
the Lackawanna station. The store has been torn down 
since and replaced with another structure, giving Mr. 
Shultz an opportunity to fit its interior in a manner con- 
forming to the splendid line of men's and women's wearing 
apparel carried in stock. Thus we find here an establish- 
ment favorably known as "Shultz's Quality Shop." In the 
seventeenth year of his career Mr. Shultz can point in this 




Shukz's Quality Shop, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

town to a store comparing advantaneously with the best 
specialty stores in his line in larger communities. But this 
is not all. Some six years ago he also started a store at 
608 Main Street, Stroudsburg, devoting its stock entirely 
to the men's lines. "Shultz's Quality Shops" are up-to-date. 




Newberry's, 622 Main Street, Stroudsburg, Leading 5 and 10c 
Store In Monroe County 

NEWBERRY'S 5, 10 and 25 Cent Store opened in 
Stroudsburg late in December, 1911, and has become 
one of Monroe County's substantial business institu- 
tions. The public was quick to recognize the good princi- 
ples upon which this store was being conducted and the 
long and previous experience of Mr. Newberry, the head of 
the business, has been used most effectively to the advan- 
tage of all citizens of Monroe County. 

Mr. Newberry has been in the 5 and 10-cent business 
sixteen years, having been active in one of the large 5 and 
10c syndicates thirteen years prior to embarking in busi- 
ness under his own name in Stroudsburg. Since opening 
the store here, two other stores of the same character have 
been opened — one in Freeland, Pa., and the other at Lans- 
ford, Pa. Newberry's stores equal the stores of large cities. 



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The Modern Plant of the New York Piano Stool and Manufacturing Co., at East Stroudsburg, Pa 



I THE PRODUCTS OF THE NEW YORK PIANO 
| STOOL & MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
I of East Stroudsburg, Penna., Are An Indication of 
j Highest Standard in the Homes of Music Lovers 



_ . _ HAT is now an industry of national importance in 
yY its far-reaching influence extending from the home 
office in East Stroudsburg, Pa., to thousands of 
homes throughout the Union through many local 
dealers, was started in Washington, N. J., in the year 
1900. It was incorporated under the New Jersey laws in 
1910, and in December, 1913, removed to Bast Stroudsburg, 
Pa., where the company was reorganized and chartered 
under the laws of Pennsylvania. A factory was especially 
built to facilitate the production of their output — which 
averaged about one hundred piano stools and twenty-five 
piano benches daily since that date. Thus an introduction 
is given to the New York Piano Stool & Manufacturing 
Company of East Stroudsburg, whose record is the best 
indication of its progress from the time it began opera- 
tions here. 

There have been some thirty employees actively en- 
gaged here, mostly all being skilled mechanics. The com- 
pany's business has prospered in spite of unfavorable con- 
ditions existing during the past year, affecting luxuries. 
Pennsylvania being the largest state of piano users in the 
Union and this plant being the only one of its kind in 
the State of Pennsylvania. It had only five competitors 
throughout the country, but had to fight hard for a share 
of the restricted business done during a rather dull year 
in its line. How well they have succeeded is best shown 
in the recent purchase by the New York Piano Stool & 
.Manufacturing Company of the interests held by the Mel- 
vin Bancroft Company, of Lowell, .Mass.. whose business 
had been successfully conducted for twenty-one years 
and whose output during the past seven years had averaged 
25,000 piano stools, 10,000 piano chairs and 5,000 piano 
benches annually, requiring about fifty employees during 
the same period. 

Chester G. Booth, the secretary-treasurer of the New 
York Piano Stool & Manufacturing Company, is ably as- 
sisted by Ludger E. Hubert, general superintendent, who 



came to the East Stroudsburg plant from his former Massa- 
chusetts home, where he was connected with the Bancroft 
Company. Under Mr. Hubert's supervision, important 
machinery of the Lowell factory has been added to the 
local industry, tripling its capacity and necessitating an 
increase in the number of employees to about seventy, 
about three-fourths being skilled male hands. The Lowell' 
plant has turned over its entire business to the company 
controlled by Mr. Booth. 

As a direct result of this amalgamation the output of 
the New York Piano Stool & Manufacturing Company, 
going from Coast to Coast — North and South — and foreign 
territory, averages more than double the former require- 
ments and shows indications of a steady increase. The 
raw material, coming from Nova Scotia, Canada, the Pocono 
Mountains and the South, exceeds an average of 125 car- 
loads a year received at East Stroudsburg. In this plant 
there are in use a number of large machines, some weigh- 
ing over three tons, including also some patent machinery 
used exclusively in the manufacture of piano stools, chairs 
and benches. 

The plant is modern and sanitary in every way, shav- 
ings being drawn through suction pipes from each machine 
and deposited in a shaving vault in the boiler house. A 
sprinkler system assures prompt fire protection. Private 
switching facilities, on the main line of the Delaware, 
Lackawanna & Western Railroad, give every convenience 
for the prompt shipment of stock, providing, as the rail- 
road company does, a 24 hour freight service to New York. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad gives a twenty-eight hour ser- 
vice to Philadelphia. Both insure speedy connection with 
other roads from these important centers of distribution. 

It is safe to say that the New York Piano Stool & 
Manufacturing Company, of East Stroudsburg, will continue 
to meet requirements of a constantly growing trade, the 
demands of the public being supplied through dealers. 



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Started in 1857 With the Building on the Left, the Joseph Wallace Hardware Co., of Stroudsburg, Is Today a Monument of Solid Progress 

History Adds Lustre To The Firm Known As The 

Joseph Wallace Hardware C om P an Y 

of Stroudsburg, Whose Career— Begun in 1857— Is a Continuous Record of Success 



HISTORY sometimes deadens the fine perspective 
of mankind. But history has only left imprints 
of progress upon the records started in the early 
fifties by the late Joseph Wallace, who was born 
on October 22, 1830. Some time before the Civil 
War he formed a partnership under the firm name of Wal- 
lace, Wyckoff & Company, carrying on an active business 
in hardware and general merchandise. Part of the stock 
was iron and steel, the iron being forged by the firm at 
the Forge Cut, along the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- 
ern Railroad. In 1857 the partnership was dissolved, Joseph 
Wallace taking the business alone and William Wallace 
starting in the lumber business. In 1876 the groceries, 
shoes and dry goods were moved into a store room on the 
Northeast corner of Main and Fifth streets, the late Joseph 
Wallace conducting that establishment with his hardware 
business. 

After the death of Joseph Wallace, in 1904, the hardware 
business was continued by his sons, Lewis A. Wallace, E. 
R. Wallace and J. Fred Wallace. After the latter's death, 
in June, 1911, his mother, Mary B. Wallace, acted as third 
partner. In October, 1913, E. R. Wallace died. His in- 
terest was then purchased by Lewis A. Wallace and M. 
B. Wallace, who adopted the firm name of Joseph Wallace 
Hardware Company. The business is now managed by 
Lewis A. Wallace, assisted by his son, Joseph Wallace. 
All of the buildings from 427 to 437 Main street, Strouds- 
burg, are exclusively devoted to the interests of this firm — 
WHOSE OWNERS DO NOT CONDUCT ANY BRANCH 
STORES IN ANY PART OF MONROE COUNTY. 

The Joseph Wallace Hardware Company buys nails, 
barbed wire, car wire and poultry wire in carload lots, 
enabling this store to quote prices accordingly in any 
quantity. They also carry a very large stock of hubs, 
rims, spokes and wagon accessories. As agents for the 
famous Devoe & Reynolds paints, the company's store 
caries an extensive line, meeting every requirement of 
the master mechanic or the amateur painter. 

Builders' Hardware is a specialty of the Joseph Wal- 
lace Hardware Company, whose stock in this line is kept 
up constantly to the highest standard of quality in quan- 
tities that will at any time satisfy the needs of the largest 
contractors. Facilities are such as to enable the firm to 
take care of special orders on short notice, giving service 
far above the ordinary, even when compared with stores 
carrying similar lines in larger communities. 

The Joseph Wallace Hardware Company also prides 
itself on handling the choicest stock of Field Seeds in 
Monroe County. Here may be found a stock of pumps, 



road scrapers, and many other things useful in agricul- 
tural and town life; plaster, weather strips, and dozens 
of articles too numerous to mention in detail, but import- 
ant enough in building operations. 

At this store will be found a good stock of guns and 
Ashing tackle to supplement the sportsmen's outfit. This 
has often been appreciated by the hunter or fisherman 
from the cities who expected to have to send away for 
everything in this line. The skates secured here are 
guaranteed to give satisfaction to young and old, as will 
coasters, etc. 

Cutlery, including fine carving sets, etc., is always car- 
ried in a good variety of wellknown makes, while house- 
hold utensils appeal to the discerning buyer who appre- 
ciates quality. Razors in well-known makes can also be 
purchased here. The famous Wiss make of scissors and 
shears are carried in stock extensively, in themselves in- 
dicating the high standard of merchandise on sale at this 
store. Rogers Silverware always appeals to the lover of 
home. The Joseph Wallace Hardware Company carries a 
full line, including knives, forks and spoons, etc., and 
offers this line also to those who are occasionally puzzled 
over the gift question. 

The leading automobile oils and a general line of ma- 
chine oils will satisfy the critical buyer. Those who use 
salt in quantities will find here land salt, Liverpool salt 
for use in salting meats, salt for use with ice cream 
freezers, etc., and salt used for feeding stock. 

One of the strong lines of the Joseph Wallace Hard- 
ware Company is particularly calculated to appeal to the 
owners of farms, where barn fixtures and general supplies 
are kept up to a high standard. This store handles hay 
carriers, metal stanchions, overhead trackage, etc., as well 
as a full line of horse blankets, whips, and the well-known 
Caldwell lawn mowers, desirable in city and country alike. 

It is probable that many Monroe Countians will feel 
agreeably surprised when they learn that this store han- 
dles a full line of woodenware, such as egg carriers, iron- 
ing boards, clothes baskets, ladders of every description — 
including stepladders and extension ladders of all lengths. 

But to enumerate everything would be impossible. Be 
it sufficient to state that here can be purchased rope 
enough to hang a much longer story on, but space is limit- 
ed, even if the stock of rope will suffice for the needs of 
all of Monroe County for some time. But this should be 
added that the building first erected in 1857 today with its 
many additions serves as one modern unit to supply the 
growing demands of a large and satisfied patronage. 



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J. M. WYCKOFF 

HAS BUILT IN EAST STROUDSBURG, PA., 

AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY KNOWN AS 

THE MONROE MILLS 



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SINCE the plant of the Monroe Mills was erected 
by J. M. Wyckoff in 1890, there have been two ad- 
ditions built. Today it is absolutely modern in its 
equipment, electric power being used throughout. 
A power shovel is used to unload incoming cars 
direct from their own switch to the mill. Over 
three hundred cars a year are thus handled. The 
bulk of the grinding is done on machines with 
direct motor connection. Besides their big local 
trade the Monroe Mills ship much of their output 
in large quantities by rail, carload lots going East 
and West. They handle all kinds of feed, corn, 
oats, etc., and make rye flour for the New York 
market, shipping it in carload lots. 

Mr. Wyckoff also has a large trade in dairy and 
poultry feeds, meeting the requirements of his cus- 
tomers by handling the leading brands. 

Mr. Wyckoff started in business as early as 
1875, but has had the present location only since 
he began to do business under the name of "Mon- 
roe Mills" in 1890. Two years later he erected the 
beautiful home, shown on this page, just above 
the milling plant. The business has grown enor- 
mously, nearly all the business — except that with 
local and county customers — being done in car- 
load lots. Economy in the handling of the ouput has 
made possible the success attained. Fred A. Wyckoff, a 
son, ably assists in the management of the affairs of the 
plant. He is a Yale graduate, having spent the only four 
years a.vay from home at that institution of learning. 
At the Monroe Mills the ripe experience of the owner 




Home of J. M. Wyckoff, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 

is doubly valuable in the conduct of the business, since 
it gets the benefit of the youthful energy of his son. In 
every instance of public welfare he supports movements 
leading to greater achievements. Like other business men 
who appreciate that public good means better things for 
all, Mr. Wyckoff backs up his recognition of this policy. 




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EAST STROUDSBURG IS FORTUNATE 

In tike Recent Acquisition ©f 

THE CAPITAL CITY CAP COMPANY 

Willi Ms Fair-ReadfoliiLg ©imitpmit 

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ATS off to the strangers within our gates. Thus 
may be set down the spirit of East Stroudsburgers 
who welcome those who settle here permanently 
to become as one with themselves in the effort to 
continue the upbuilding of the County of Monroe. It is 
true that this welcome also is extended to the passing 
stranger. And thus it probably came about that H. D. 
Goodenough, President and Treasurer of the Capital City 
Cap Company, formerly of Trenton, N. J., and Burlington, 



dred and fifty men and women at the old plants. It is 
a matter of congratulation for the Pennsylvania town that 
many of the skilled employees will remain in the Capital 
City Cap Company's service here, while others will be 
added. The payroll, amounting to about $50,000 annually, 
indicates clearly the benefits accruing to the community 
from the latest addition to East Stroudsburg's numerous 
manufacturing establishments. 

H. C. Goodenough is secretary of the company. S. J. 




The Plant of the Capital City Cap Company, East Stroudsburg, Pa. 



Is. J., and his associates have become interested enough 
to move their plants from the two cities of the neighbor- 
ing state to the hustling, live wire community of Monroe 
County, Pa., known as East Stroudsburg, combining all 
under one roof. The company employed about one hun- 



Serwer is general manager, and I. Serwer, superintendent. 
Their product, sold at wholesale, is one already favorably 
known, so that the mere fact that it is shipped out from 
Monroe's hustling town adds prestige to East Stroudsburg. 
The entire equipment of the plant is run by electricity. 



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